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A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2011
Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an eff ective framework for cooperation because it has … liberalization mechanism that has driven the WTO process to previous successes. Second, new restraints on bilateralism and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371323
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Rent(s) Asunder: Sectoral Rent Extraction Possibilities and Bribery by Multinational Corporations
Malesky, Edmund; Jensen, Nathan; Gueorguiev, Dimitar - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2011
We argue that openness to foreign investment can have differential effects on corruption, even within the same country and under the exact same domestic institutions over time. Our theoretical approach departs from standard political economy by attributing corruption motives to firms as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371325
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The World Trade Organization and Climate Change: Challenges and Options
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009
adversely affect the environment, there are linkages between existing rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and rules … for both national and international agendas, and special attention must be given to the relationship between the WTO and … the emerging international regime on climate change. This working paper examines the nexus of the WTO and climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546323
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The International Monetary Fund and Regulatory Challenges
Truman, Edwin M. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plays a substantial regulatory role in the international monetary and financial system. The IMF has been assigned a formal regulatory role in a limited number of areas such as obligations covering exchange rate policies. The Fund has a broader informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458219
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Multilateralism beyond Doha
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2008
A fundamental shift is taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the burning issues of the day were not even on the negotiating agenda. This paper advances five propositions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627737