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Implicações do mecanismo da OCDE de conduta empresarial responsável sobre a governança e o modo de atuação das EMNs

Garcia Ribeiro, Cássio; Inacio Junior, Edmundo - 2021

the Guidelines in 1997 and has since made efforts to adapt to the content of this OECD instrument geared towards MNCs. The …This report proposes to present and analyze the impacts of the set of standards and recommendations present in the … Guidelines for Multinational Companies (OECD, 2011). This document represents the main initiative carried out by a multilateral …

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Country or leader? : political change and UN general assembly voting

Dreher, Axel; Jensen, Nathan M. - 2009

In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting coincidence to examine how changes in leadership affect...

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Indisputably essential : the economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements

Keck, Alexander (contributor); Schropp, Simon (contributor) - 2007

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...

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The optimal design of trade policy flexibility in the WTO

Mahlstein, Kornel; Schropp, Simon A. B. - 2007

This paper is a contribution to the literature on rational design of trade agreements. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign states. Incomplete contracts contain gaps. Ex post, contractual gaps may leave gains from trade unrealized; they may create...

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Revisiting the "compliance-vs.-rebalancing" debate in WTO scholarship : towards a unified research agenda

Schropp, Simon A. B. - 2007

This paper constitutes an attempt to reframe and eventually deflate the ongoing “compliance-vs.-rebalancing” debate which has permeated WTO scholarship for the last 10 years. Our main criticism concerns the substance of the entire debate. We find that scholars on both sides of the...

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Rethinking global climate change governance

Barrett, Scott (contributor) - 2009

This paper explains why the approach taken so far to mitigate global climate change has failed. The central reason is an inability to enforce targets and timetables. Current proposals recommending even stricter emission limits will not help unless they are able to address the enforcement...

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Use of the WTO trade dispute settlement mechanism by the Latin American countries : dispelling myths and breaking down barriers

Torres, Raúl A. - 2012

DSM; and have done so by coming up with innovative and creative solutions, without deviating from the guidelines …

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Poison in the wine? : tracing GATS-minus commitments in regional trade agreements

Adlung, Rudolf; Miroudot, Sébastien - 2012 - Manuscript date: 31.01.2012

Commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) that fall short of the same countries' obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are a relatively frequent phenomenon. However, they have gone widely unnoticed in the literature to date and drawn very little attention in...

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Responding to the global financial crisis : the evolution of Asian regionalism and economic globalization

Chin, Gregory T. - 2012

This paper examines the evolving dynamics between economic globalization and Asian regional interdependence, and asks whether and how the global financial crisis impacted Asian regionalism. The analysis suggests that the global crisis did trigger advances in regional policy cooperation from 2007...

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Is technical assistance under free trade agreements WTO-plus? : a review of Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreements

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011

What kind of technical assistance and capacity building benefits do developing countries enjoy if they sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with developed countries? This is a frequently asked question among developing country officials involved in FTA policymaking. While we tend to normatively...

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