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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
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Arbitrating and Mediating Disputes : Benchmarking Arbitration and Mediation Regimes for Commercial Disputes Related to Foreign Direct Investment
Pouget, Sophie - 2017
An effective commercial arbitration regime matters for foreign investors. It gives parties the autonomy to create a … dispute resolution system tailored to increasingly complex disputes. Foreign investors view arbitration as a way to mitigate … Disputes indicators assess the legal and institutional framework for commercial arbitration, mediation, and conciliation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973934
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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long-run political-economic costs and benefits. Empirical work examining the relationship between such commitments and the exercise of trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974687
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Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and The'Cotton Problem'
Baffes, John - 2017
Following an 8-year long dispute over cotton subsidies, Brazil and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 21, 2010, effectively paving the way for settling the dispute. This paper argues that cotton subsidies are just the tip of the iceberg while a number of other,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976001
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Tariff Retaliation Versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements
Limão, Nuno - 2006
World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779256
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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from Mercosur
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
There is not yet consensus in the trade agreements literature as to whether preferential liberalization leads to more or less multilateral liberalization. However, research thus far has focused mostly on tariff measures of import protection. This paper develops more comprehensive measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935259
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U.S. Antidumping : Much Ado About Zeroing
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
The United States use of "zeroing" in its antidumping procedures has become a political flash point threatening some legitimacy of the WTO's dispute settlement system. This paper provides a positive analysis of the zeroing issue, explains how it has evolved and who is likely to be affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976479
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Developing Countries, Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Critical appraisals of the current and potential benefits from developing country engagement in the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976741
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Family Firms and Contractual Institutions
Iacovone, Leo - 2019
This paper offers new evidence on the relationship between contractual institutions, family management, and aggregate performance. The study creates a new firm-level database on management and ownership structures spanning 134 regions in 11 European countries. To guide the empirical analysis, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889290
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Triggers of Contract Breach : Contract Design, Shocks, or Institutions?
Nose, Manabu - 2017
This paper constructs a large contract-level data set to examine factors that trigger breach of foreign investment … contract. Furthermore, although investors' bargaining power becomes obsolete as contracts mature, contracts can be designed to … mitigate the risk of breach of contract by involving multilateral organizations and creating buffers to absorb commodity price …
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