Almost all WTO dispute panels exceed their statutory time limits. This is often seen to indicate a more general problem … for panels to manage their tasks. The time required varies considerably across panels however, suggesting that they do not … face the same problems. To shed light on these differences, this paper examines the relationship between the time panels …

economies (i.e. successful integrators in the world economy), after a succession of financial crises in the 1990s (from Mexico … very indebted countries face difficulties to integrate into world trade due to a lack of access to private capital markets …