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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector … and find that the lower bound estimate of the extent of bribery in Ukraine is between 460m and 580m U.S. dollars (0 ….9-1.2% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2003). …
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On the Selection of Arbitrators
de Clippel, Geoffroy; Eliaz, Kfir; Knight, Brian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A key issue in arbitration, which resolves disputes among parties, involves the procedure for selecting an arbitrator …
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Arbitration in International Trade
Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The great majority of international contracts provide for arbitration in the event of dispute. Legal scholars argue … that international arbitration is causing the development of a legal doctrine attuned to the needs of business and … independent of national laws. This paper studies international arbitration as a prime example of private trade shaping …
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Trade Agreements and Enforcement: Evidence from WTO Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P.; Reynolds, Kara M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper examines implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, we model formal trade dispute negotiations as potentially addressing the terms-of-trade...
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Tariff Retaliation versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements
Limão, Nuno; Saggi, Kamal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We analyze whether financial compensation is preferable to the current system of dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations committed by other members. We show that monetary fines are more...
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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...
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Bite the Bullet: Trade Retaliation, EU Jurisprudence and the Law and Economics of ‘Taking One for the Team’
Hoekman, Bernard; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper discusses the Fedon case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which involved a claim for compensation by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade barriers by the United States following the failure by the...
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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
Bown, Chad P.; Reynolds, Kara M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper introduces a new data set and establishes a set of basic facts and patterns regarding the ‘trade’ that countries fight about under WTO dispute settlement. It characterizes the scope of products, as well as the levels of and changes to the trade values, market shares, volumes, and...
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Is The Use Of The WTO Dispute Settlement System Biased?
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of existence (1995-1998). This has prompted a debate about whether the DS system is biased against smaller and poorer countries, for example, because of a lack of legal capacities...
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