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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration
Bloom, David E. - 2022
about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final … in the arbitration decisions, this evidence of mechanical compromise behavior should be viewed as characterizing the … overall operation of conventional arbitration mechanisms and not the behavior of individual arbitrators in any particular case …
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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Bown, Chad P. - 2021
This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...
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Rules, Coordination and Manipulability Among Arbitrators
Currie, Janet - 2007
of wage settlements negotiated without arbitration using a panel of contracts between teachers and school boards in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074310
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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
La Porta, Rafael - 2010
In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified...
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Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes
Desai, Mihir A.; Hines Jr., James R. - 2022
While governments have multiple tax instruments available to them, studies of the effect of tax policy on the locational decisions of multinationals typically focus exclusively on host country corporate income tax rates and their interaction with home country tax rules. This paper examines the...
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and what we know about the design of patent systems. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066797
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On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni - 2008
Formal economic analysis of trade agreements typically treats disputes as synonymous with concerns about enforcement. But in reality, most WTO disputes involve disagreements of interpretation concerning the agreement, or instances where the agreement is simply silent. And some have suggested...
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Attracting FDI in a Politically Risky World
Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
investment in a politically risky world …
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The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Lack of Retaliatory Trade Intervention
Li, Chunding - 2016
The 2008 financial crisis did not precipitate global retaliatory trade intervention, in seeming contrast to the Great Depression in 1930s. This paper discusses the influence of model structure in optimal tariff (OT) calculations in explaining this puzzle. We emphasize how earlier literature...
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Subsidy Agreements
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
International disputes over subsidies are increasingly disrupting the world trading system. The creation of the WTO was …
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