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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103998
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104090
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104596
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065915
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Trade and Credit : Revisiting the Evidence
Gutiérrez Chacón, Eduardo - 2019
This paper explores the effects of bank lending shocks on export behavior of Spanish firms. For that purpose, we combine Balance of Payments data on exports at the firm product-destination level with a matched bank-firm dataset incorporating information on the universe of corporate loans from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894264
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R&D Subsidies : A Law & Economics Analysis of Regional and International Rules
Caiado, Jose; Berghaus, Thomas - 2014
This paper addresses the question of what the current international legal systems concerning subsidies for innovation … are and whether these fit the findings of economic analysis. Innovation is a very relevant economic instrument toward … achieving innovation may not be undertaken on a socially optimal level by private firms. This is because the social benefits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040543
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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”,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168424
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International Trade and the Protection of Local Cultural Production - A Survey of Empirical Studies
Hazucha, Branislav - 2012
This paper surveys recent empirical studies examining various fields of cultural production in order to scrutinize to what extent they can inform drafting new policies in the field of liberalizing the trade in cultural goods and services. The analysis focuses on three main groups of empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168425
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168582
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Systemic Regulation of Global Trade and Finance : A Tale of Two Systems
Gadbaw, R. Michael - 2011
. These two important international regulatory systems, created after World War II to promote growth and stability in the … success of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a regulatory approach that includes rules designed, and tested in practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128513