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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Davidson, Carl; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Engagement in foreign markets can have an impact on firm organization and on the type of occupations that a firm needs. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mixes using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a representative sample of the labor force for 1997-2005....

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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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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 …

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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. …

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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 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...

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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...

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Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Hoekman, Bernard; Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are under-represented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on their propensity to participate, the idea being that...

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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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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