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The European Securities and Markets Authority and institutional design for the EU financial market – a tale of two competences: Part (2) rules in action

Moloney, Niamh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The purpose of this article, and of its earlier companion article (Part (1) Rule-making, 12 European Business Organization Law Review (2011) p. 41), is to examine the implications of the new European Securities and Markets Authority which was established in January 2011. In the wake of the...

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When the claim hits: bilateral investment treaties and bounded rational learning

Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard; Aisbett, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until they...

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Do governments mean business when they derogate?: human rights violations during notified states of emergency

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Whether international human rights treaties constrain the behavior of governments is a hotly contested issue that has drawn much scholarly attention. The possibility to derogate from some, but not all, of the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)...

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The creation of UN Women

Charlesworth, Hilary; Chinkin, Christine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The notion of institutional coherence has dominated the agenda for reform of the United Nations (UN) in this century. Motivated by what he saw as the weakness of the fractured UN system, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan led an ambitious reform program throughout his term of office (1996-2005)...

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Getting past the WTO deadlock: the plurilateral option?

Woolcock, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The WTO’s Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations are blocked. After repeated attempts to make progress, trade … plurilateral negotiations between subsets of like-minded WTO members and that need not apply or benefit all WTO members. This paper … probability of new plurilateral agreements being accepted by WTO members the focus should be on the impact of preferential trade …

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Reconciling observed tariffs and the median voter model

Dhingra, Swati - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

-abundant countries. As expected, terms of trade effects raise tariffs across all countries and are stronger among non-members of the WTO. …

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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...

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Integrated EUA and CER price modeling and application for spread option pricing

Barrieu, Pauline; Fehr, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we propose a market consistent futures price dynamics model for cap-andtrade schemes, designed in the spirit of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Historical price dynamics for the EU ETS suggest that, both, European emission Allowances (EUAs) and Certified...

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Pollution permits, strategic trading and dynamic technology adoption

Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago; Taschini, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper analyzes the dynamic incentives for technology adoption under a transferable permits system, which allows for strategic trading on the permit market. Initially, firms can invest both in low-emitting production technologies and trade permits. In the model, technology adoption and...

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Transnational compensation for oil pollution damage: examining changing spatialities of environmental liability

Mason, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The civil liability regime for ship-source oil pollution stands at the forefront of rule development for transnational environmental compensation, advancing private law remedies to enable national victims of oil spill damage to make financial claims against domestic and non-domestic tanker...

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