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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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The Challenge of Implementing Preferential Trade Agreements in Developing Countries – Lessons for Rule Design
Chauffour, Jean-Pierre - 2013
The latest generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) features a diversity of ‘deep integration' provisions, which mandate a wide range of border and behind-the-border regulatory and institutional reforms in areas such as food safety and technical standards, customs administration,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090634
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Lessons of the 1999 Abolition of intra-EU duty free sales for Eastern European EU candidates
Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2002
At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the fifteen member nations. The opponents … of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and … the travel fare within the EU but also could be characterised as a supplement to the normal retail trade for some products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514091
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Trade intensity and output synchronisation : on the endogeneity properties of EMU
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; De Santis, Roberta; Girardi, … - 2013
Using annual bilateral data over the period 1988-2011 for a panel of 24 industrialised and emerging economies, we analyse in a time-varying framework the determinants of output synchronisation in EMU (European Monetary Union) distinguishing between core and peripheral member states. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724042
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Revisting the Effective Exchange Rates of the Euro
Schmitz, Martin - 2012
This paper describes in detail the methodology currently used by the European Central Bank (ECB) to determine the nominal and real effective exchange rate indices of the euro. Building on the work of Buldorini et al. (2002), it shows how the ECB's techniques for calculating effective exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113993
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Regulatory Harmonization Through FTAs and BITs : Regulation of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
Nakagawa, Junji - 2012
State capitalism is reemerging today. Some governments, notably newly emerging economies such as China and Russia and oil producing countries in the Middle East are placing much emphasis on state-led economic development, and they are making much use of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103941
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Romanian Current Account Sustainability after the Adhesion to European Union
Dumitriu, Ramona - 2013
After the fall of communist regime the Romanian current account passed from exceeds to substantial and persistent deficits. This evolution raised concerns over the country external sustainability. Since 2007, in the Romanian foreign trade dramatic changes occurred, being induced by the adhesion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083772
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Trade Intensity and Output Synchronisation : On the Endogeneity Properties of EMU
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
Using annual bilateral data over the period 1988-2011 for a panel of 24 industrialised and emerging economies, we analyse in a time-varying framework the determinants of output synchronisation in EMU (European Monetary Union) distinguishing between core and peripheral member states. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083873
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Less Perfect Unions : Average Treatment Effects of Currency Unions and the EMU on Trade Over Time
Kopecky, Joseph - 2019
Estimating the currency union effect on trade has been a contentious topic, with a wide range of estimates on the true size of gains. One fundamental issue underlying many estimates is the lack of a accurate control group against which to compare outcomes, making it hard to understand the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891914
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Perspectives on the Euro Area Current Account Sustainability
Dumitriu, Ramona - 2018
Romanian version is available at: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=3110875' https://ssrn.com/abstract=3110875This paper investigates the Eurozone current account sustainability by using unit root tests and cointegration techniques. The results indicate there is no cointegration between the credit and...
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