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Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

Timmermann, Martina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

With North Korea going nuclear, tensions ever present in the Taiwan Strait, and growing posturing over territories thought to be rich in resources, the question of how lasting peace, order, stability and prosperity can be achieved in Northeast Asia has become increasingly important....

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Preferential versus Multilateral Trade Liberalization and the Role of Political Economy

Stoyanov, Andrey; Yildiz, Halis Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper we analyze the effect of the freedom to pursue preferential trade liberalization, permitted by Article XXIV of the GATT, on country's incentives to participate in multilateral negotiations and on the feasibility of the global free trade. We present a model in which countries choose...

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Revisiting the trade effects of services agreements

Shingal, Anirudh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The proliferation of services trade agreements and improved availability of data on bilateral services trade flows has resulted in a growing literature on the theoretical and empirical assessment of services trade effects. In this paper, we revisit the trade effects of services agreements using...

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How to encourage network trade rules interconnections? an application to the case of non tariff barriers

Vaillant, Marcel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

. Countries are less willing to establish rules on the basis of MFN than within PTAs. Hence the demands to expand and deepen in …

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The Political Economy of Bilateralism and Multilateralism: Institutional Choice in Trade and Taxation

Rixen, Thomas; Rohlfing, Ingo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

bilateralism in international double tax avoidance and multilateralism in the trade regime poses an empirical puzzle. In this paper …

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Regional Trade Integration in the CIS Area

IDRISOV, GEORGY; TAGANOV, BORIS - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the CIS. We prepared an exhaustive list of expired and currently effective … PTAs in the CIS area, taking into account the initial levels of exemptions and the dynamics of their cancellations. We … analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively the economic aspects of PTAs. We discussed further integration agenda of the Russian …

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Past is just a fine reality: redefining the Indo-Pak history through its economics

Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper revisits India Pakistan relationships in its historical context since 1947, and gives a fresh perspective to the political economy of the region by promoting the idea of how embracing free market economic management policies may have benefited both countries to achieve higher economic...

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Eurasia and Eurasian Integration: Beyond the Post-Soviet Borders

Vinokurov, Evgeny; Libman, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

‘Eurasia’ seems to be a relatively clear concept in terms of physical geography, but much less so for social sciences. While the word ‘Eurasia’ is constantly used in various contexts (more today than twenty years ago), the specific notion of what it actually means is unclear. According...

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Defining and measuring decentralisation: a critical review

Torrisi, Gianpiero; Pike, Andy; Tomaney, John; Tselios, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper presents a conceptual analysis of terms belonging to the semantic field of state restructuring. The analysis aims to critically reviewing different terms focusing the attention both to the definitional and to the measurement sides. Different “types of decentralisation” are...

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Pragmatic Eurasianism

Vinokurov, Evgeny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

ideology of open regionalism that does not shrink into itself, but which is based on consolidation across the continent, both …

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