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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 …

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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 … of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351 WTO disputes initiated through the official filing of a Request …

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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 agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...

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The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008

concerning allocation of jurisdiction which are common to all WTO Members and bind them by virtue of their appurtenance to the … highlight how these rules and the GATT/WTO jointly determine the scope for unilateral environmental policies for WTO Members. In … the study we examine the relevant multilateral framework dealing with this issue, as well as the relevant GATT and WTO …

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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 opportunistic exploitation of the inevitable incompleteness of the agreement. This paper examines the role of NT as it applies to internal taxation under the GATT. It is shown...

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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing …

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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 …

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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment

Horn, Henrik - 2009

The basic legal instrument in the WTO Agreement regulating domestic environmental policies is the GATT National …

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Why the WTO? An Introduction to the Economics of Trade Agreements

Grossman, Gene M.; Horn, Henrik - 2012

project aims to analyze the central instrument in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement for the regulation of trade in …. * There is a second leg to the ALI project, in which economists and lawyers jointly analyze the emerging case law from the WTO …

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In the Shadow of the DSU: Addressing Specific Trade Concerns in the WTO SPS and TBT Committees

Horn, Henrik; Mavroides, Petros C.; Wijkström, Erik N. - 2013

The paper argues that focusing only on disputes formally raised in the WTO Dispute Settlement system underestimates the … extent of trade conflict resolution within the WTO. Both the SPS and TBT Committees address a significant number of 'specific …

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