A hot issue in trade negotiations concerns the existence of stateowned firms and state subsidies. Disputes between the US and the EU and the issue of the recognition of the status of a market economy to China are often the epitome of that. In Germany the giant Volkswagen is state controlled, in...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. James Brander and Paul Krugman (1983), 'A "Reciprocal Dumping" Model of International Trade', Journal of International Economics, 15 (3-4), November, 313-21 -- 2. Wilfred J. Ethier (1982), 'Dumping', Journal of Political Economy, 90 (3), June, 487-506...

The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to...

Antes que china se adhiriera a la OMC México adopto cuotas compensatorias a diversos productos chinos con el fin de proteger a los sectores mas vulnerables frente a la competencia desleal de china, dichas cuotas fueron impugnadas con el ingreso de china a dicho organismo internacional en el...

Según el artículo 28 de la ley de comercio exterior dicta que una práctica desleal de comercio exterior es la importación de mercancías en condiciones de discriminación de precios o subvenciones en el país exportador ya sea de origen o de procedencia, los cuales puedan causar daño a...

The last two decades have witnessed that countries across the world are guided by the rules and regulations of multilateral trading institutions (for example, World Trade organization [WTO], International Monetary Fund [IMF]) in order to promote free and fair trade through gradual reduction in...

In several countries, public healthcare providers purchase services from private providers to shorten waiting times. Some private providers in turn combine public service with practice in their own facilities. According to the existing literature, they are viewed as cream-skimming profitable...

In 1993, the WTO negotiations to create a working group of experts from the Max Planck Institute (Germany), proposed the establishment of an International Antitrust Code. This code was intended to pursue the creation of a competition laws based on a "minimum standard", the substantive...

This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government's decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I...

The report identifies concerns with the EU anti-dumping instrument, as applied today, regardless of the fact that the investigation procedures and methods might be in line with the current regulation and practice. The report's arguments are based on the recent anti-dumping investigation – and...

El dumping es un fenómeno mucho más complejo que lo que se estudia hoy en día. Pese a ser denostado, en el se basan todas las fuerzas de lucha contra las plusvalías del comercio, y por eso no es tan ilegitimo, aunque lo parezca, y a mí también me lo parece. Como todo esta teoría nos surge...

We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to...

Introduction: social dumping and the EU integration process / Magdalena Bernaciak Part I: Intra-EU labour and service mobility : threat to labour standards? -- Large-scale migration in an open labour market : the Irish experience with post-2004 labour mobility and the regulation of employment...