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The German Economy and EU Industrial Tariff Reductions: Partial and CGE Analyses of a Stillborn Millennium Round
Spinanger, Dean; Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H. - 2000
The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260437
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The WTO and environmental provisions: three categories of trade and environment linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for … heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only … unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263545
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More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010
We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277981
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The New Economy and the International Regulatory Framework
Piazolo, Daniel - 2001
The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260472
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TAFTA - a dead horse or an attractive open club?
Siebert, Horst - 2005
effects for third countries, and discusses how TAFTA fits into the WTO institutional rule system for the world economy and how … integration into the WTO framework. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273144
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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020
equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270558
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Marktordnung und Barrieren im grenzüberschreitenden Handel mit Kommunikationsdienstleistungen: Dienstleistungen der Informationstechnologie
Krancke, Jan - 2000
Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die technischen Grundlagen und die Marktordnung für den internationalen Handel mit Dienstleistungen der Informationstechnologie dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die resultierenden Handelsbarrieren. Die Funktionsweise des Internets (Netzaufbau, Adress- und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260446
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Marktordnung und Barrieren im grenzüberschreitenden Handel mit Telekommunikationsdienstleistungen
Krancke, Jan - 2000
Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die technischen Grundlagen und die Marktordnung für den internationalen Handel mit Telekommunikationsdienstleistungen dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die resultierenden Handelsbarrieren. Die Grundstruktur internationaler Telekommunikation wird in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260447
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Liberalisierung des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels: Analyse des GATS und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Handelsliberalisierung
Krancke, Jan - 1999
Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die Probleme des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die derzeit gültigen Regelungen des GATS. Sowohl die konzeptionelle Problematik der Definition von Dienstleistungen und Dienstleistungshandel, als auch die sich aus der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260549
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An international rule system to avoid financial instability
Siebert, Horst - 2008
In a series of summits, leading countries of the world will meet to draw up an international arrangement for financial stability. Such a rule system should prevent a financial crisis as we have seen it in 2007 and 2008. It should include appropriate principles of monetary policy, rules for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263530