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Trading through platforms: evidence from AliExpress

This paper strives to contribute three things to the literature. The first is a line-sketch theory model that puts consumers into the value chain. It emphasizes the value-creating aspect of superior matching between consumers preferences and the varieties when they can purchase online (and thus have access to a broader range of varieties than is available locally). We indirectly test…

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/ 20/04/2021

Export restrictions in times of pandemic: options and limits under international trade agreements

Dozens of governments have banned or limited exports of vital medical supplies and food. Are these legal under WTO and EU law? This chapter argues that while such bans are not allowed in normal times, the rules do not apply when the measures are justified on health grounds, are temporarily applied, and are aimed at preventing or relieving critical shortages of essential products. The…

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/ 30/04/2020

Global governance in peril ?

After decades of globalisation and integration, the world seems to be fragmenting again, epitomised best, perhaps, by the return of geopolitics, protectionism, unilateral sanctions, treaty withdrawals, and even military and economic coercion. Challenged by the United States, the return of old (Russia) and the growing assertion of new (China) antiliberal powers, the multilateral…

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/ 17/04/2020

Structural conditions for novelty: the introduction of new environmental clauses to the trade regime complex

When do parties introduce novel clauses to a system of contracts or treaties? While important research has investigated how clauses diffuse once introduced, few empirical studies address their initial introduction. Drawing on network theory, this paper argues that novel clauses are introduced when agreements are concluded in certain structures of earlier agreements and the clauses…

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/ 10/03/2020

WTO dispute settlement post 2019: what to expect ?

What does the imminent demise of the WTO Appellate Body (AB) mean for the settlement of ongoing and future trade disputes? This editorial discusses two 'unlikely solutions', at least in the short term: the US lifts its veto on AB appointments; a WTO organ unlocks the impasse. Appeals pending on 10 December 2019 will most likely be carried-over pursuant to (contested) Rule 15 of the…

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/ 11/02/2020

The evolution and current status of De Facto Stare Decisis in international trade and investment tribunals: how to understand the present by looking into the past

Is there a doctrine of 'stare decisis' in international trade and international investment law? From a positive law perspective, the answer is a definite no. However, as many scholars have observed, in practice, there has been a strong level of deference from the Appellate Body to its previous rulings, but less so from investment tribunals. Using social network analysis to assess…

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/ 18/10/2019

The rise of G20 emerging economies

The dynamism of emerging economies in recent years has sparked an impressive shift in economic power and in growth expectations from West to East and from North to South. The rise of new players has made the increasingly integrated and multipolar world even more complex. It has also posed many questions in regard to the existing model of global governance, including the WTO Dispute…

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/ 10/05/2019

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