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What is the Top Priority on Climate Change?
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
What should be the West's top priority for climate-change policy? This article is a revised and updated version of my talk to the Potsdam Global Sustainability Symposium (which drafted the Potsdam Declaration presented to the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123837
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Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda
Anderson, Kym; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …
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Agriculture, Developing Countries, And The WTO Millennium Round
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
liberalize farm trade in the next WTO round follow the same pattern as the Uruguay Round, or might a more radical approach be … required to bring agriculture more into the WTO mainstream? The question is explored from the viewpoint of developing countries …
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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 …
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Peculiarities of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791897
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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 agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
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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. In the situation under study, imports may cause environmental damage, in which case less favorable treatment of imported products may be globally desirable from an international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025513
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Trade and Climate Change: The Challenges Ahead
de Melo, Jaime; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
binding agreement in sight as the global climate regime and the global trade policy regime represented by the WTO appear to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677241
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Energy Demand and Trade in General Equilibrium: An Eaton-Kortum-type Structural Model and Counterfactual Analysis
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper sheds light on the role of the impact of taxes on energy production versus tariffs on imported goods for trade, energy demand, and welfare. For this, we develop a structural Eaton-Kortum type general equilibrium model of international trade which includes an energy sector. We estimate...
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Reducing Agriculture Tariffs Versus Domestic Support: What's More Important for Developing Countries?
Hoekman, Bernard; Ng, Francis; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
High levels of protection and domestic support for farmers in developed countries significantly affect many least developed countries (LDCs), both directly and through the price-depressing effect of agricultural support policies. High tariffs and domestic support may also lower the world price...
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