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Merger policies and trade liberalization

Horn, Henrik - 2000

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–2006: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...

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Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a prima facie case that its claim holds, WTO adjudicating bodies have said little of more general...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This …

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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2006

This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute settlement mechanism. We then discuss the two main themes in the empirical literature on dispute...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2006: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008

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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - 2006

We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may … be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade … explicitly into account can help explain a number of key features of real trade agreements. …

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The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008

Trading nations exchange tariff concessions in the context of trade liberalizing rounds. Tariffs, nonetheless, are not … international community. In this paper, we focus on the interaction between trade and environment. The purpose of this study is to …

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National Treatment in the GATT

Horn, Henrik - 2006

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against …. Furthermore, it requires a high degree of economic sophistication on behalf of trade negotiators in order for this beneficial …

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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008

the determinants of developing country participation in the DS system, using bilateral industry-level trade data, and a …

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