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A Green Light for Environment, or a Green Light for Protection? The EU-US Dispute Over US Corporate Average Fuel Economy Regulations
Francois, Joseph; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
The US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation mandates, subject to a civil penalty, producers to achieve a certain fleet average fuel economy on sales of new passenger cars. Analysing the incentive effects of CAFE, we find that it affords differential tax treatment to car models with...
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Taxation and Economic Incentives on Health-Related Commodities: Alcohol, Tobacco and Food
Alemanno, Alberto; Sassi, Franco - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the economic, legal and public policy rationales for the application of taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities. The motivation for such taxes has been more often linked to the fiscal revenues generated than to their potential...
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Chinese women after the accession to the world trade organization: A legal perspective on women's labor rights
Burda, Julien - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 3-4, pp. 259-285
The World Trade Organization's law is a potentially powerful instrument for improving the labor rights of Chinese …
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Border Tax Adjustments: A feasible way to address nonparticipation in Emission Trading
Ismer, R.; Neuhoff, K. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2004
CO2 emission certificates internalise effects of fossil fuel consumption on global climate and sea levels. If they are only implemented in some countries, then their effectiveness is limited; Consumption, production and investment decisions do not reach the optimal allocation, production with...
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The World Trading System, 2nd Edition: Law and Policy of International Economic Relations
Jackson, John H. - The MIT Press
Since the first edition of The World Trading System was published in 1989, the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations has … some 26,000 pages. This new edition of The World Trading System takes account of these and other developments. Like the … law and policy. Two basic premises of The World Trading System are that economic concerns are central to foreign affairs …
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On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Formal economic analysis of trade agreements typically treats disputes as synonymous with concerns about enforcement. But in reality, most WTO disputes involve disagreements of interpretation concerning the agreement, or instances where the agreement is simply silent. And some have suggested...
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The DSU Review (1998-2004): Negotiations, Problems and Perspectives
Zimmermann, Thomas A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
light of the general explosion of literature on the World Trade Organization (WTO), including on its dispute settlement …
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GAMESMANSHIP, third parties and arbitration: reflecting on the paradigm of PPP disputes
Dimitrios, Athanasakis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Disputes occurring in PPP projects pervade three interfacing levels of agreements: internal, downstream, and peripheral. PPP disputes have been free from arbitral dispute resolution and their legal environment is uncertain and deregulated. While project partners appear to have a natural monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835619
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Domestic climate policies and the WTO
Zhang, ZhongXiang; Assunção, Lucas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Experience with existing multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) shows that trade measures agreed to within the MEAs themselves may not necessarily lead to a dispute between parties. On the contrary, there is a great chance that disputes may arise from national measures undertaken to fulfil...
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Book Keeping of International Commercial Transactions
Paliu-Popa, Lucia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The entrance of our country in Europen Union determined modifications in the romanian fiscal system, this one must to adapt to community demands/wants. Taking into account the fact that commercial transactions made in community space are not included in the international transactions category,...
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