The paper puts the collapse of the world trade volume in 2009 into two historic perspectives. First, the paper analyses 18 major post-1980/pre-2007 financial crises and uses these observations as a basis to critically evaluate presently available projections for world trade. Second, the paper...

Rethinking developing country status at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is essential for the institution's modernization and survival. The Trump administration has recognized this challenge and is seeking changes to the flexibilities provided to developing countries. Referred to as “special...

Inequality is a lively topic. With the trends in the US and Europe, researchers have formulated two major explanations for the problem. Trade/Openness on the one hand and Skills/Computers on the other. The quot;conventionalquot; explanation is the dominant view, primarily because empirical...

This study investigates China's new economy to estimate the impacts of China on Asian countries. For the period between 1995 and 2015, the Korea GDP increases by an average of approximately 3.34 percent and the Japanese GDP increases by approximately 0.11 percent for every one percent increase...

Benefitting from the publication of a new data set by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2017, this article examines the main characteristics in the realm of state-owned multinationals, especially in terms of their geographical origin, the target countries of...

Benefitting from the publication of a new data set by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2017, this paper examines the main characteristics of the universe of State-owned multinationals, especially in terms of geographical origin, target countries of outward...

This presentation examines changes in global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and stocks in the past quarter of century (1991–2016) for countries and territories for which data are available. It also asks how those changes affect our way of explaining FDI and other activities of...

Trademarks and certification marks increasingly denote sustainability or social responsibility standards. These marks of rectitude are particularly noticeable in the context of global trade, where market integration is accompanied by relatively uneven integration of environmental, labor and...

This chapter argues that the WTO Appellate Body has not been consistent in applying Article 31 of the VCLT and considering the context of the relevant treaty text in light of its object and purpose. It has instead either been overly mechanistic in its textual interpretation or has strayed from...