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Revisiting the "compliance-vs.-rebalancing" debate in WTO scholarship : towards a unified research agenda

Schropp, Simon A. B. - 2007

This paper constitutes an attempt to reframe and eventually deflate the ongoing “compliance-vs.-rebalancing” debate which has permeated WTO scholarship for the last 10 years. Our main criticism concerns the substance of the entire debate. We find that scholars on both sides of the...

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Indisputably essential : the economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements

Keck, Alexander (contributor); … - 2007

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...

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Investment Treaties as Corporate Law : Shareholder Claims and Issues of Consistency

Gaukrodger, David - 2013

Claims by company shareholders seeking damages from governments for so-called "reflective loss" now make up a substantial part of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) caseload. (Shareholders' reflective loss is incurred as a result of injury to "their" company, typically a loss in value...

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WTO 2025 : Restoring Binding Dispute Settlement

Wolff, Alan Wm - 2022

Binding dispute settlement, meaning the ability to obtain a final judgment of whether a Member of the World Trade …

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Regional economic integration and multilateralism : the case of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA and the Malaysia-New Zealand FTA

Vitalis, Vangelis - 2015

trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the … under negotiation or in force. In this regard, Asia and the Pacific has developed a rapidly evolving regional economic … Economic Partnership (or ASEAN+6 RCEP), as well as the putative Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), which …

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Investor State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior

Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2017

Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) were supposed to become an integral part of multilateral trade and investment agreements although the partner countries of these deals do not suffer from substantial institutional weakness. This paper shows why multinational firms lobby for ISDS also in...

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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...

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International Investment Law and Treaty Interpretation

Waibel, Michael - 2011

Investment tribunals often profess fidelity to the rules on treaty interpretation contained in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). At first sight, they mention Article 31 and 32 VCLT with reassuring regularity. But first impressions may lead astray. My hypothesis is that many...

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Responding to the Global Financial Crisis : The Evolution of Asian Regionalism and Economic Globalization

Chin, Gregory T. - 2012

freefall at the world level, there emerged a second order response at the level of regional institutional building …

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The impact of bilateral investment agreements on attracting foreign direct investments

Petrović, Ružica; Radenković Jocić, Dragana; … - In: Ekonomske teme 61 (2023) 2, pp. 145-170

Foreign investors' fear of expropriation led to the emergence of the idea of new ways of protection and adequate treatment of foreign investments on the international level. Primarily, the home countries wanted to protect their interests and became the main proponents of the creation of...

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