In response to concerns over the efficacy of the WTO dispute settlement system, especially in regard to its use by …. The idea is that a country that has won cause before the WTO, and who is facing non-implementation by the author of the …, can auction off that right. The attractiveness of this idea is that it offers an additional possibility to injured WTO …

World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor to the General Agreement on … Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for the international trade of goods and services and for intellectual … Bagwell and Robert Staiger provide an economic analysis and justification for the purpose and design of the GATT/WTO. They …

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, the General Agreement on … GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its historical antecedents. We suggest that the existing literature provides a … useful framework for understanding and interpreting central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we …

We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in … China. …

price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China's export share of GDP has a positive effect …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …

in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

This paper discusses the possibility of China falling into the so-called middle income trap in terms of three … checkpoints: innovation capability, world-class big businesses, and inequality. Based on these criteria, our conclusions are as … follows: First, China has increasingly become innovative and thus differs from other middle income countries. Second, China …

Using the national China Household Income Project 2007 urban survey data and a propensity score matching method, this …

We document the sharp expansion of higher education in China beginning in 1999 and analyze its impacts on the …-in-difference strategy, we find that China's expansion policy has sharply increased the unemployment rate among young college graduates, and …