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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This … compulsory and binding two-level mechanism for the adjudication of disputes between WTO Members is the most active among … WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set. The data set covers all 426 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386417
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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771085
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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–2006: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2 … of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419503
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Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the … natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO … environmental policies, to establish the rules concerning burden of proof that are likely to be applied in such disputes. Evaluating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419555
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Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Hoekman, Bernard; Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on … claims made in each WTO dispute between 1995 and 2006, as well as a rough classification as to whether each specific claim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645308
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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645333
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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
Horn, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
The basic legal instrument in the WTO Agreement regulating domestic environmental policies is the GATT National …) in NT disputes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of this burden for trade liberalization and for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645379
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National Treatment in the GATT
Horn, Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against opportunistic exploitation of the inevitable incompleteness of the agreement. This paper examines the role of NT as it applies to internal taxation under the GATT. It is shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645401
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The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
highlight how these rules and the GATT/WTO jointly determine the scope for unilateral environmental policies for WTO Members. In … conclusions are two-fold: on occasion, the outcome would be different, had WTO panels observed the default rules concerning … under the WTO. Crucially, absent recourse to the default rules concerning allocation of jurisdiction, one risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645426
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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645431