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Donald Trump's Policy and International Institutions

Larionova, Marina - 2017

The rhetoric of Donald Trump, as well as some of his actions, have given rise to a lot of questions as to what will be the United States' future policy toward certain leading international organizations like the UN, G7, the EU, and the WTO. This policy will certainly undergo a number of changes,...

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Virtual Water Trade and Bilateral Conflicts

De Angelis, Enrico - 2017

In light of growing water scarcity, virtual water, or the water embedded in key water-intensive commodities, has been an active area of debate among practitioners and academics alike. As of yet, however, there is no consensus on whether water scarcity affects conflict behavior and we still lack...

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Pharmaceutical Patents and Expropriation in Indian Bilateral Investment Treaties

Ranjan, Prabhash - 2017

This chapter discusses whether foreign investors, specifically pharmaceutical companies, could challenge India's regulatory measures that impact their patents under India's BITs. More specifically, the paper will focus on whether regulatory measures such as compulsory licensing of pharmaceutical...

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Institutional Design of Biofuel Development Across World

Mishra, Satyendra Nath - 2017

momentum in last three decades. However, the scanning of biofuel policies across world shows that primary motive for the … and community organizations across world, to address the social, economic and environmental challenges. In this background …, the paper attempts to explored the institutional design of biofuel development across world …

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Economics and Politics of International Investment Agreements

Horn, Henrik - 2017

We analyze the optimal design and implications of international investment agreements. These are ubiquitous, potent and heavily criticized state-to-state treaties that compensate foreign investors against host country policies. Optimal agreements cause national but not global underregulation...

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Foreign Banks and Credit Conditions in EMEs

Ehlers, Torsten - 2017

A large literature assesses the benefits that foreign banks bring to emerging market economies (EMEs), drawing evidence from datasets that track the ownership of banks located in a particular country. Similarly, previous work has demonstrated that cross-border credit – both direct cross-border...

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Who Holds Influence over WTO Jurisprudence?

Daku, Mark - 2017

rules. Looking at the World Trade Organization, we ask whether some countries hold more influence over jurisprudence than …

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Regulatory Space : A Comparison of Treaty Texts

Broude, Tomer - 2017

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, signed in February of 2016, is an ambitious effort to set high standards on a ‘mega-regional' level. This paper examines the TPP's investment provisions with a focus on their most controversial dimension: the extent to which they constrain the...

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Mercadona a Global Corporate Finance Case : Teaching Note

Sánchez-Verdasco, Javier - 2017

This case is considered to be the connecting thread to the 35 hour Corporate Finance course for postgraduates and executive education in which: 1) the main concepts of financial statements analysis will be reviewed, including those regarding cost structure, break-even point and operating...

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Rights, Integrity, and the Principle of Sustainable Development : Dworkinian Reflections on the Sustainability of International Law

Jodoin, Sébastien - 2017

Sustainable development is a contested concept in international law. There is a general consensus on its core features, but disagreement remains as to its nature and status as a principle of international law. Such debates raise fundamental issues in legal theory that can be examined afresh in...

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