The so-called buffer time or buffer delay allows airlines to control for excessive delays by introducing extra time in … being a hub - served by a single airline. Welfare losses that follow from delays are relatively small as compared to the … connections that are considered, fares rather than delays should be the focus of institutions aiming at enhancing passengers …

should now commit to firm accession “exam” dates and signing dates (for those who pass); this should be done both for the …

market rules. The second mechanism we put forward is accession to the European Union. We show that accession to the European …’ country is small enough relative to the European Union. Interestingly, we show that accession without conditionality is better … positive effects of expected accession. …

under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …’s Accession Protocol, the Safeguards Agreement, and WTO accession law, as well as economic aspects of the case. …

as assessed by the private sector. In part this can be explained by the fact that the prospect of EU accession makes GATS … less relevant as a commitment device for a subset of transition economies. However, for many of the non-EU accession …

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

distributed unequally and institutions do not ensure political commitments. The results imply that for any level of development … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers …