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Disputes in International Investment and Trade

Ossa, Ralph; Staiger, Robert W.; Sykes, A. O. - 2022

International investment agreements employ dispute settlement procedures that differ markedly from their counterparts in trade agreements along three key dimensions: standing (i.e., the right to file grievances), the nature of the remedy, and the remedial period. In the state-to-state dispute...

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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements

Maggi, Giovanni - 2009

We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...

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Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements?

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between...

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Are Free Trade Agreements Contagious?

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2010

This paper presents a new model of the domino effect which is used to generate an empirical index of how "contagious" FTAs are with respect to third nations. We test our contagion hypothesis together with alternative specifications of interdependence and other political, economical and...

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What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization

Bagwell, Kyle - 2007

World Trade Organization. We find broad support for the terms-of-trade theory in the data. We claim more tentatively to find …

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On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements

Maggi, Giovanni - 2008

Formal economic analysis of trade agreements typically treats disputes as synonymous with concerns about enforcement. But in reality, most WTO disputes involve disagreements of interpretation concerning the agreement, or instances where the agreement is simply silent. And some have suggested...

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How Close is Asia to Already Being a Trade Bloc?

Li, Chunding - 2014

FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …

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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals

Li, Chunding - 2014

This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

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What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime

Whalley, John - 2011

This paper discusses the role that trade can potentially play in both negotiating and operating a post Kyoto/post 2012 global climate policy regime. As an addition to the bargaining set for a global climate negotiation, trade in principle widens the range of jointly beneficial potential outcomes...

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Learning by Ruling and Trade Disputes

Maggi, Giovanni - 2017

Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of a dispute resolution system in decline. In this paper we propose a theory that can explain these trends as a result of judicial learning; thus according to...

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