Financial Services Plurilateral Request; The Recent CTFS Meetings; CTFS Informals; CTFS Mandate; Status Quo in CTFS...

background; financial services and regulation; trade agreements and the regulatory interface; current crisis and its implications; potential lessons for reform...

Trade in Financial Services:• Highly regulated sector• Sector opened in last quarter of 20thcentury• Some sub-sectors operate on aglobal basis• Market share of foreign-ownedinsurance companies in Europe 41%,Latin America 47% and Asia 12%...

Measuring Financial services production in the economy. Difficult to measure...Only some charges are directly invoiced...

Viewing the challenges from 3 perspectives: Demandeurs, Targeted countries, Systemic...

Whenever a bilateral agrrement affects trade in services, the relevant provisions are multilateralized via Art. II:1 of GATS. Only exceptions: Preferential trade agreements, Recognition measures, MFN Exemptions...

The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Unionintroduced decoupled income transfers as the most prominent policy instrument.However, member states were given substantial discretion over the degree and timingof the reform implementation. As a result, different...

[...]Wir wollen in der vorliegenden Studie untersuchen, welche Verbreitung diegrenzüberschreitende Kooperation in der betrieblichen Praxis gefunden hat.Es soll ergründet werden, ob es den KMU erfolgreich gelingt, durch ein partnerschaftlichesVorgehen unternehmensgrößenspezifische...

[...]Ziel dieser Studie ist die Quantifizierung der Auslandsbeziehungen kleiner undmittlerer Unternehmen. Dazu werden zunächst die in Frage kommenden amtlichen Statistiken hinsichtlich der unternehmensgrößenspezifischen Erkenntnismöglichkeitenzu den Auslandsaktivitäten der Unternehmen...

Foreign partners in German partnerships shouldtake note of the new statutory treatment of specialpayments (Sondervergütungen) now codified in section50d paragraph 10 of the Income Tax Act (Einkommensteuergesetz,or EStG). The question iswhether these special payments qualify as businessprofits...