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Income convergence across asian economies : an empirical exploration

Ghatak, Sunetra; De, Prabir - In: Journal of Asia Pacific business 22 (2021) 3, pp. 182-200

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Does Governance Matter for Infrastructure Development? Empirical Evidence from Asia

De, Prabir - In: Journal of Infrastructure Development 4 (2012) 2, pp. 153-180

Governance is an important determinant for both national and regional infrastructure development for many parts of Asia. This study shows that institutional governance is an important determinant for national and regional infrastructure development. Improved national governance is a necessary...

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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 …

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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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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute settlement mechanism. We then discuss the two main themes in the empirical literature on dispute...

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Is The Use Of The WTO Dispute Settlement System Biased?

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of existence (1995-1998). This has prompted a debate about whether the DS system is biased against smaller and poorer countries, for example, because of a lack of legal capacities...

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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 …

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The Time WTO Panels Require to Issue Reports

Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Almost all WTO dispute panels exceed their statutory time limits. This is often seen to indicate a more general problem for panels to manage their tasks. The time required varies considerably across panels however, suggesting that they do not face the same problems. To shed light on these...

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National Treatment in the GATT

Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defence in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …

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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may … be incomplete. In spite 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. …

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