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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for … heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only … unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566201
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How Global Rules are established and stabilized
Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper analyzes how international rules are established and stabilized, i.e. how an international institutional order develops. Rules emerge mainly through learning from negative experience and serve to reduce transaction costs. The paper looks at mechanisms that stabilize rule systems, at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755258
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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622111
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The New Economy and the International Regulatory Framework
Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818796
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Multilateralism and regionalism from an American perspective: Parallels and contrasts with the Langhammer vision
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
. This could still leave a bright future for the WTO as a house of plurilaterals, i.e., agreements on specific issues such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956074
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Liberalisierung des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels: Analyse des GATS und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Handelsliberalisierung
Krancke, Jan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die Probleme des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die derzeit gültigen Regelungen des GATS. Sowohl die konzeptionelle Problematik der Definition von Dienstleistungen und Dienstleistungshandel, als auch die sich aus der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700555
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Climate policy options and the World Trade Organization
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors argue that border measuresboth import restrictive measures and export … subsidiescontemplated in US climate bills and the climate policies of other countries stand a fair chance of being challenged in the WTO …. Given the prospect of foreseeable conflicts with WTO rules, the authors suggest that key WTO members should attempt to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097474
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A Model of the IMF as a Coinsurance Arrangement
Chami, Ralph; Sharma, Sunil; Shim, Ilhyock - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
The paper shows that an IMF-like coinsurance arrangement among countries can play a useful role in the global financial system. The operation of the coinsurance arrangement is examined under different loan contracts. It shows that, if the IMF´s objective is to safeguard its resources and be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083334
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A Model of an Optimum Currency Area
Ricci, Luca Antonio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper develops a model of the circumstances under which it is beneficial to participate in a currency area. The proposed two-country monetary model of trade with nominal rigidities encompasses the real and monetary arguments suggested by the optimum currency area literature: correlation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083391
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Emerging East-West collaborative networks: An appraisal
Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Although an extensive amount of literature reviews emerging patterns of east-west co-operation, it is not easy to grasp the state of the art. Too many of the books, articles and papers tend to mark the trees rather than to map the forest. The paper analyses recent trends from the point of view...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276078