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European Community-Sugar : Cross-Subsidization and the World Trade Organization
Howse, Robert L. - 2016
An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747624
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Incidence of the Digital Economy and Frictional Unemployment : International Evidence
Lederman, Daniel - 2020
This paper is the first to quantify the relationship between the incidence of the digital economy and long-term frictional unemployment across countries. The resulting evidence indicates that there is a robust, negative partial correlation between national unemployment rates and the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840289
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Disaggregating the Impact of the Internet on International Trade
Osnago, Alberto - 2017
The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968215
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Services Policies in Transition Economies : On the European Union and the World Trade Organization as Commitment Mechanisms
Eschenbach, Felix - 2016
The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual policy stances over time. While there is substantial...
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The Gatt's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936212
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Is the WTO Passe?
Bagwell, Kyle - 2018
The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937212
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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
Ederington, Josh - 2017
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969264
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Green Subsidies and the WTO
Charnovitz, Steve - 2017
This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes … specific recommendations for how World Trade Organization law can be improved and discusses the literature on reform proposals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972628
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972945
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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