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The DSU Review (1998-2004): Negotiations, Problems and Perspectives

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Settlement Understanding; DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place (DSU … review), however without yielding any result so far. The DSU review exercise has only attracted limited academic interest to … become the subject of countless contributions, the efforts of the entire WTO community to make the DSU evolve further have …

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The economics of U.S. ethanol import tariffs with a consumption mandate and tax credit

de Gorter, Harry; Just, David R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting exporters like Brazil. If an import tariff is imposed to offset the tax credit, world prices of...

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Economic reforms and foreign direct investment in Iran

Sarfaraz, Leyla - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This article studies foreign direct investment(FDI)from domestic and foreign viewpoints. From a domestic viewpoint, legal, cultural, economic, social, political, and historical constraints to foreign direct investment will be analyzed and necessary solutions will be proposed . In addition, the...

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RTAs and WTO compatibility: Catch me if you can? The case of EPA negotiations

Cernat, Lucian; Onguglo, Bonapas; Ito, Taisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is an ongoing debate about best ways to assess the compatibility of RTAs with WTO rules and the possible negative impact that the proliferation of RTA formation may have on individual members and on the stability of the multilateral trading system as a whole. Therefore, rules defining the...

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Re-examination of the Mayer Median Voter Model of Trade Policy

Dhingra, Swati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper examines the empirical validity of the Mayer-Heckscher-Ohlin (M-H-O) model. We test the inequality-tariff relationship studied by Dutt & Mitra (2002) as well as a large country version of Mayer’s model. Dutt and Mitra (2002) found support for the inequality-tariff implication of the...

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Trade and the evolving world economy

Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

Although American business leaders do not like protectionism, more and more of them are concluding that too many countries are stacking the deck against American competitors. The severe recession of 1980-83 and its lingering effects in certain regions and business sectors; unemployment stuck at...

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Regional vs. Global Public Goods: The Case of Post-Communist Transition

Dabrowski, Marek; Radziwill, Artur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper discusses the role of regional public goods vs. global goods in influencing postcommunist transition in Central and Eastern Europe and former USSR with special attention given to three particular factors: (i) external anchoring of national reform process; (ii) international trade...

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Services trade and domestic regulation

Kox, Henk L.M.; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper argues that regulatory measures affect the fixed cost of entering a market as well as the variable costs of servicing that market. Moreover, differences in regulation among countries often imply that firms have to incur entry costs in every new market. Indicators of regulatory...

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Resources and North-South trade: a macro analysis in open economies

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

The paper explores the impacts of resource export policies on major macro variables of the exporter and the importer economies. There are two regions, North and South, trading resources for industrial goods. Each region consumes two goods (basic consumption goods and industrial goods) and...

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Knocked-down Agriculture After De-industrialization; Another Destructive Influence of Neo-liberalism

Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The author shows that although some short term factors have contributed to the recent food crisis in developing countries, the crisis is rooted mainly in agricultural support policies of developed countries, liberalization of the agricultural sector by developing countries and contradictions in...

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