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The EC and the Locational Choice of Swedish Multinational Companies
Swedenborg, Birgitta - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
market will affect the locational choice made by geographically mobile MNC's. The reason is that the reduction of trade … incentive to produce within the common market. This is true even though there may be no absolute increase in trade barriers for … different countries. It uses unique survey data on Swedish MNC production and trade for the period 1965-86 and draws on previous …
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Vertical FDI Revisited
Braconier, Henrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Urban, Dieter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002
This study explores how relative skilled-wage premia affect FDI. Contrary to previous studies based on factor endowment differences, we find strong support for vertical FDI, in the sense that more FDI is conducted in countries where unskilled labor is relatively cheap. In addition, we find t hat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207066
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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025513
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Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
It is often alleged that PTAs involving the EC and the US include a significant number of obligations in areas not currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental protection. The primary purpose of this study is...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386417
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Pillar Two and EU Law
Pinto Nogueira, João Félix; Turina, Alessandro - 2021
extension should not be discarded, as the analysis of the connected trade-offs may ultimately be positive.When it comes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087316
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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 … explicitly into account can help explain a number of key features of real trade agreements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771085
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Economic and Legal Aspects of the Most Favoured Nation Clause
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
The Most-Favored Nation clause (MFN) forbids Members of a trade agreement to discriminate between trading partners. It … agreements in the World Trade Organization. There seems to be a rather widespread belief among policy makers that there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067557
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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. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...
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 adjudicating bodies have said little of more general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419555