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. 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 …
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world's population. Many of these countries, including China and India, have been strengthening those laws and their …
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The landscape of supranational institutions is highly diverse, defying a single concept of globalization. Some cross …
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Economists generally agree that free trade leads to economic growth. This proposition is supported both by theoretical models and empirical data. Further, while the empirical evidence is more limited on this question, the general consensus among economists holds that trade restrictions are...
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In 2009, Belgium and the Netherlands announced a deal to send approximately 500 Belgian inmates to Dutch prisons, in exchange for an annual payment of £26 million. The arrangement was unprecedented, but justified as beneficial to both nations: Belgium had too many prisoners and not enough...
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This paper discusses the normative foundation of a global competition regime. It asks: What kind of normative values do we need? What objectives ought we to pursue? Why value economic competition at such a tough time as this? Are the disputes on these issues in the US and EU jurisdictions likely...
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Following the first oil crisis, France launched the world’s largest ever nuclear energy program, commissioning 58 new … reactors. These reactors are now reaching 40 years of age, the end of their technological lifetime. This places France at an … optimization model, calibrated for France. Then we use it to study 27 retrofit strategies for all combinations of uncertain …
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Increasingly linked by regional and global ties, national economies depend more than ever on international investments and trade. While trade and investment have become international, however, taxation has remained national, preserving and strengthening one of the few remaining barriers to...
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