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This paper is concerned with the policy choices and trends related to the institutional design of competition law and regulatory enforcement. It focuses on the different architectures that seek to reconcile and bring together the tools used to regulate the behaviour of undertakings ex ante and...
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Governments increasingly are seeking to use bilateral and regional trade agreements to reduce the cost-increasing effects of differences in product market regulation. They also pursue regulatory cooperation independent of trade agreements. It is important to understand what is being done through...
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Institutional economics provide a useful frame to navigate the fuzzy world of governance structures. Of course markets …
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number of new data sets, especially from World Bank initiatives. This new focus is particularly welcome for two reasons …
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and the cost-effectiveness of awarded contracts, by employing the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement and EuroPAM …
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-effectiveness. I employ the World Bank's Benchmarking Public Procurement quality scores. Using extensive data about public procurement …
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In this paper we claim that, in the WTO Appellate Body (AB)'s ruling in US — Countervailing Measures (China), the AB decision has not put in question the practice of imposing countervailing duties (CVDs). While the US has formally “lost” the case, a change in the procedures and tests used...
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We study the effect of services trade restrictiveness on manufacturing productivity for a broad cross-section of countries at different stages of economic development. Decreasing services trade restrictiveness has a positive indirect impact on the manufacturing sectors that use services as...
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.S. hegemony after World War II. In this paper, I propose a new understanding of studying global governance that reflects recent … world order within which the mainstream literature on global governance has been anchored, this paper employs the idea of a … “Multiplex World”. Unlike the former, the idea of a Multiplex World envisions a more pluralistic and diversified architecture of …
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-governmental actors, and the acceleration of information technology. Investigating how the EU could be positioned among world powers in …
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