In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … 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 …

In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

This Paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of …

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and … democracy and globalization. A major part deals with the question of whether globalization enhances democracy. The answer is …

the U.S. and China are broadly supportive of the predictions of the model. …

How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents two facets and in theory has …-country-year level, and a second measure of globalization-induced product market competition based on a country’s own tariff … globalization promotes corporate transparency, especially in industries that depend heavily on external financing. At the same time …