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Getting Global Financial Stability Through Precautionary Principle
Ju, Jinyul - 2012
Today international society faces a challenge in addressing the global financial and economic crises. Never-ending debates on the key causes of financial crises shows there is uncertainty in financial matter. Unlike risk, uncertainty cannot be forecasted by mathematical and stochastic methods....
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Legitimacy of the G-20 as Global Financial Regulator
Weber, Rolf H. - 2012
The G-20 has been established more than 10 years ago as a reaction to the Asian financial crisis without - at first - gaining much weight on the international scene, however, the financial crisis of 2007/08 has caused a re-vitalization on a higher level, namely as body of the "G-20 Leaders". The...
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How to Kill a BIT and Not Die Trying : Legal and Political Challenges of Denouncing or Renegotiating Bilateral Investment Treaties
Lavopa, Federico - 2012
The backlash against the expansive interpretation of key disciplines of international investment law by arbitral tribunals has prompted a host of strategies, implemented mostly by developing countries, aimed at walking away from the system. These range from denouncing the ICSID Convention and...
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Systemic Integration and International Investment Law – Some Practical Reflections
Kalderimis, Daniel - 2012
This paper takes an empirical, practical approach to test the proposition that systemic integration leads to greater coherence of international law. It builds on work by Professor Campbell McLachlan and others that specific treaty-based regimes can be located in the broader context of...
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Transparent Financial Innovation in a Post-Crisis Environment
Delimatsis, Panos - 2012
approach to financial innovation that the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO … financial crisis, financial innovation was regarded as inextricably linked with economic growth and aggregate welfare. In the … wake of the crisis, criticism as to the utility of financial innovation became more unequivocal. After reviewing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104240
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Defining Development in WTO Law : The Legality and Parameters of Labour Rights Conditionality in the Generalised System of Preferences
O'Brien, Brynn - 2012
This paper argues that GSP labour rights conditionality is in conformity with WTO law. This hinges on the critical question of whether the realisation of labour standards can meet a ‘development need,' a term considered by the WTO Appellate Body report in the EC – Tariffs Preferences case,...
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Public Health Regulation : The Impact of Intersections between Trade & Investment Treaties in Asia
Hsu, Locknie - 2014
There has been an explosive growth of free trade agreements (FTAs) in recent years. The World Trade Report 2011 of the … World Trade Organization (WTO) shows Asian members to be among the most active in signing preferential trade agreements …
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The (Unnoticed?) Contradictory Overlapping of International and Domestic Rules on FDI : Getting the Legal Facts Right
Fernandez-Pons, Xavier; Torrent, Ramon - 2012
This intends to be a very “empirical” paper. We want to let the facts (legal facts, but facts nevertheless) speak by themselves. We simply present them in an organized way and limit to the minimum our own comments. The overall objective is to show, “by getting the legal facts right”,...
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Culture Clash : Investor’s Rights v. Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law & Arbitration
Vadi, Valentina - 2014
This study aims to explore the ‘clash of cultures’ between international investment law and international cultural law. When countries pursue economic growth, their policy makers may have an incentive to lower cultural standards to promote economic activities. If states nonetheless maintain...
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Pre- and post-crisis dynamics of financial globalisation for financial development in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Moor, Lieven de; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
This study unites two streams of research by simultaneously focusing on the impact of financial globalisation on financial development and pre- and post-crisis dynamics of the investigated relationship. The empirical evidence is based on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011 and...
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