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Dispute Settlement Over Exchange Measures Affecting Trade and Investments : The Overlapping Jurisdictions of the IMF, WTO, and the ICSID
Viterbo, Annamaria - 2014
IMF, WTO and ICSID legal systems, and the degree of consistency of interpretation. After a brief overview of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708871
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426539
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Regional economic cooperation in the Western Balkans : the role of stabilisation and association agreements, bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements in regional investment and trade flows
Grieveson, Richard; Holzner, Mario; Vukšić, Goran - 2020
impact on the region's inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports, with primary interest in the effects on intra …-regional FDI and trade. We find that BITs were generally not related to intra-regional FDI (nor to the FDI from other countries …). However, in a separate discussion of Serbian FDI into Montenegro we argue that the corresponding BIT between the two countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287030
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A two-step procedure for generating domestic and asymmetric international trade costs when data are scarce
Mazhikeyev, Arman - 2019
The practice of trade cost measurement faces several challenges related to data quality, methodology and theory; but the major issue is that of data scarcity. Due to these facts both domestic and asymmetric trade costs have been ignored despite being a feature of modern trade models. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147217
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Competitiveness in Transition Economies : What Scope for Real Appreciation?
Krajnyák, Kornélia - 2006
This paper estimates equilibrium dollar wages for 15 transition economies. Equilibrium dollar wages are interpreted as full employment wages consistent with a country`s physical and human capital endowment, and estimated by regressing actual dollar wages on productivity and human capital proxies...
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Small is beautiful and important : economies and firms trading in digital services
Kerner, Riina; Kitsing, Meelis - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 1, pp. 93-111
countries. The WTO dataset was used to visualise trade in services data and to interpret clusters of digitalised countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014330642
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Trade policy substitution : theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns
Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: 29 October 2014
We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419803
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The Multilateralization of International Investment Law : The Emergence of a Multilateral System of Investment Protection on the Basis of Bilateral Treaties
Schill, Stephan W. - 2008
The paper advances the paradoxical thesis that international investment law is developing towards a multilateral system of investment protection on the basis of bilateral treaties. Despite the infinite fragmentation of substantive investment law, coupled with arbitration as a decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216958
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Drivers of divestment decisions of multinational enterprises : a crosscountry firm-level perspective
Borga, Maria; Ibarlucea Flores, Perla; Sztajerowska, Monika - 2020
Divestment by multinational enterprises is an important yet understudied phenomenon. The few available estimates indicate that about a fifth of all foreign affiliates are divested every five years. This paper presents the findings from a novel cross-country firm-level dataset with financial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147280
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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
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