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On May 26, 2017, Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann published an Op Ed titled "Hunger Bonds", urging investors to avoid Venezuelan sovereign bonds on the grounds that the country was prioritizing payments on the bonds over remedying a humanitarian crisis. Contemporaneously, news emerged regarding a suspicious looking bond issue by Venezuela's oil company that was purchased largely by…

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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

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How preferential is world trade?

We calculate how much of world trade is preferential, and at which margin. We are using a detailed dataset based on tariff-line import and tariff data of the 20 largest importers, covering almost 90% of world imports in 2008. We show that while around 50% of world trade is between countries that apply preferences to each other and could therefore be considered “preferential”, only 16…

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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

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/ 22/03/2019

Embracing free trade agreements, Korean style: from developmental mercantilism to developmental liberalism

This study analyzes how and to what extent South Korea has embedded developmental liberalism into its FTA initiative, departing from its traditional focus on developmental mercantilism. In the wake of the global economic crisis of 2008-10 and the subsequent expansion of government interventionism across the world, the developmental state model has attracted renewed scholarly…

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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

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/ 22/03/2019

The legal form and status of informal international public policy making bodies: transgovernmental regulatory networks and international agencies

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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

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Design by diffusion: the level of legalism in dispute settlement mechanisms in preferential trade agreements

How do states design dispute settlement mechanisms in preferential trade agreements? And why do they choose the design features they eventually decide upon? This study proposes to test established theories of institutional design with a new dataset, and explores the possibility of an alternative explanation: institutionalist theory considers acts of design to be unique and…

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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement

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/ 22/03/2019

Soft vs hard governance for labour and environmental commitments in trade agreements: comparing the US and EU approaches

Three methodologies are used to enforce labour and environmental commitments in the US and EU trade agreements: cooperative, sanctions and composite. In-depth analysis of the scope of commitments, level of protection, institutional framework as well as types of informal and formal dispute processes elucidates the pros and cons of such methodologies. Sanctions approach weakens…