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The time WTO panels require to issue reports
Horn, Henrik - 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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Multilateral environmental agreements in the WTO: Silence speaks volumes
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2013
This study contributes to the debate concerning the appropriate role of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in in WTO dispute settlement. Its distinguishing feature is that it seeks to address this relationship in light of the reason why the parties have chosen to separate their...
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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 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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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–-2006: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 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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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - 2006
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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The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008
Trading nations exchange tariff concessions in the context of trade liberalizing rounds. Tariffs, nonetheless, are not … international community. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between trade and environment. The purpose of this study is to …
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National Treatment in the GATT
Horn, Henrik - 2006
The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense 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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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008
the determinants of developing country participation in the DS system, using bilateral industry-level trade data, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320177
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Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 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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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
Horn, Henrik - 2009
) in NT disputes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of this burden for trade liberalization and for the …
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