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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430680
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TAFTA - a dead horse or an attractive open club?
Siebert, Horst - 2005
A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political … trade area for its members with respect to trade in goods and services and investment flows. It then looks at potential … effects for third countries, and discusses how TAFTA fits into the WTO institutional rule system for the world economy and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273144
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WTO reform and the crisis of multilateralism : a developing country perspective
Ismail, Faizel - South Centre; Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies … - 2020
The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences … to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book argues that the Trump Administration reform proposals have been much more … the proposals and called for the WTO to be development-oriented and inclusive. This book provides a critical analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429727
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EU's eastern neighbours: Institutional harmonisation and potential growth bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Paweł - 2009
This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU's Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430828
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EU's eastern neighbours: institutional harmonisation and potential growth bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Paweł - 2009
This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU's Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848673
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Competing with Whom? For What? And How? The Great Fragmentation of the Firm, FDI Attraction Profiles, and the Structure of International Tax Competition in the European Union
Reurink, Arjan - 2019
International tax competition is generally framed as states competing for foreign direct investment (FDI), and analyses of the phenomenon draw heavily on FDI statistics. In and of themselves, however, FDI statistics are merely a quantification of the value of investment projects and tell us...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896559
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Macroprudential Policy in the EU : A Political Economy Perspective
Bengtsson, Elias - 2019
In response to the lessons of the global financial crisis, macroprudential policy is now firmly established as a financial policy area to prevent excessive risk taking in the financial sector and mitigate its effects on the real economy. However, macroprudential policy is facing several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899113
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The Political Economy of Banking Regulation - Does the Basel 3 Accord Imply a Change?
Bengtsson, Elias - 2019
Literature on the international financial architecture suggests that financial crises have had profound effects on both the balance of power in the establishment of financial regulation, and the economic impact of regulation on countries and regulated entities. In this article, we seek to add to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173780
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Macroprudential Policy in the EU–Reflections on Institutional Contexts and Governance Arrangements
Bengtsson, Elias - 2019
In response to the global financial crisis, macroprudential policy is now firmly established as a financial policy area to prevent excessive risk taking in the financial sector and mitigate its effects on the real economy. It has become thoroughly integrated in the work programmes of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103379
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Institutional and Human-Nature Determinants of Financial Investment Behavior Across European Households
Plopeanu, Aurelian P. - 2020
This paper explores the institutional and human-nature determinants of financial investment behavior across households from 25 European countries by employing the seventh wave of the SHARE-ERIC survey. We find that households' investment behavior in shares or stocks is strongly associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823744