Search Results - subject:"WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION"

Carbon border adjustement, trade and climate governance : issues for OPEC economies

Abbas, Mehdi - HAL - 2011

The relation between the climate regulation and the multilateral trade regime is a rising issue in the field of international governance. This article presents the options available to OPEC economies related to this. It analyses the option of introducing a carbon tax or border adjustment...

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John Maynard Keynes: Is That you Knocking on the Door?

Kowalski, Tadeusz; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Zakład Ekonometrii Stosowanej, Szkoła Główna … - 2011

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of macroeconomic thought from 1936, the year John Maynard Keynes published his general theory of employment, interest and money to the year 2010. It explores the reasons for the extension of the business cycle during the postwar period. The paper...

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World Trade Report 2011- The WTO and Preferential Trade Agreements: From Co-existence to Coherence

eSocialSciences; World Trade Organisation WTO - 2011

The ever-growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a prominent feature of international trade. The World Trade Report 2011 describes the historical development of PTAs and the current landscape of agreements. It examines why PTAs are established, their economic effects, and the...

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What Determines Trust in International Organizations?

Hessami, Zohal - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2011

So far no existing study has analyzed what determines people’s trust in the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO even though – in the absence of democratic accountability – this is one of the few ways to assess the legitimacy of these institutions. This study is intended to fill this gap in...

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What determines trust in international organizations? An empirical analysis for the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO

Hessami, Zohal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

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Beyond market access: Trade-related measures for the least developed countries. What strategy?

Cortez, Ana Luiza - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2011

This paper assesses the effectiveness of non-tariff special and differential treatment (SDT) offered exclusively to the least developed countries by WTO agreements. SDTs are inefficient in at least four aspects. First, they are not easily accessed as they require a certain level of institutional...

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The Determinants of Economic Growth in the Philippines; A New Look

Tolo, Willa Boots J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper uses a panel of 23 emerging markets for the period 1965?2008 to study the determinants of per capita GDP growth in the Philippines. The Philippines is an outlier in terms of agricultural exports, investment, research and development, population growth, and political uncertainty. Panel...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401190

Protectionist Responses to the Crisis: Global Trends and Implications

Bussière, M.; Pérez-Barreiro, E.; Straub, R.; Taglioni, D. - Banque de France - 2011

since the mid-2000s, and has possibly intensified since the start of the financial crisis. However, no World Trade … Organization (WTO) member has retreated into widespread trade restrictions or protectionism to date. Our model-based simulations …

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Proposals for WTO reform : a synthesis and assessment

Hoekman, Bernard - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … internal and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others -- such …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800600

Optimal Tariffs, Retaliation and the Welfare Loss from Tariff Wars in the Melitz Model

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2011

This paper characterizes analytically the optimal tariff of a large one-sector economy with monopolistic competition and firm heterogeneity in general equilibrium, thereby extending the small-country results of Demidova and Rodriguez-Clare (JIE, 2009) and the homogeneous firms framework of Gros...

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