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Mediating Conflict in the Lab
Casella, Alessandra - 2020
the theory in a lab experiment where two subjects negotiate how to share a resource; in case of conflict, the subjects … the treatment with direct communication) or to the mediator (in the mediation treatment), before making their demands or … a computer implementing the optimal mediation program. While the theoretical result refers to the best (i.e. most …
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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2001
This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...
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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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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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Subsidy Agreements
Bagwell, Kyle - 2004
International disputes over subsidies are increasingly disrupting the world trading system. The creation of the WTO was nearly prevented by disputes in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations over the issue of negotiating disciplines on agricultural subsidies, an issue which continues to plague...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468402
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Is the WTO passé?
Bagwell, Kyle - 2015
The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...
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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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China's WTO Entry : Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2007
This chapter assesses China's integration into the global trading system by examining areas of international political-economic "friction" associated with its increased trade. We use a number of newly constructed data sets to examine tensions associated with its rapidly increasing trade and the...
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WTO Dispute Settlements in East Asia
Ahn, Dukgeun - 2003
East Asian countries have become much more active in utilizing the WTO dispute settlement system to assert their legal rights. The dispute settlement experience so far for these countries has shown strong tendency of domestic governments to defend economic interest of major industries. Their...
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The Case for Auctioning Countermeasures in the WTO
Bagwell, Kyle - 2003
A prominent problem with the WTO dispute settlement procedures is the practical difficulty faced by small and developing countries in finding the capacity to effectively retaliate against trading partners that are in violation of their WTO commitments. In light of this problem, Mexico has...
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