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Corporate Strategy and Political Economy in a World Free of Dumping
Over the last twenty years many countries have enacted and begun using antidumping legislation. These laws seek, amongst other goals, to deter injurious dumping. In this paper I describe some of the consequences for corporate decision-making and for the political economy of reforms if antidumping laws succeed in deterring dumping in the first place. Understanding these potential…
Institution partenaire
English / 13/09/2005
Can the WTO Rise to the Challenge of Economic Development?
Looking back over the first four years of negotiation of the Doha Round this paper identifies and discusses a number of factors that are shaping negotiations among WTO members as they try to fulfil the development mandate for this multilateral trade negotiation. These factors are not just diplomatic in nature, indeed many relate to changes in how many view the potential impact of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2005
WTO-Schiedsgericht lehnt vorgeschlagenen EU-Zoll auf Bananen ab
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/09/2005
(Why) Are Economists Different?
After presenting casual evidence of the difference between economists and the rest of the population, I review the survey and experimental evidence on this topic during the last 20 years. I then ask whether these results are applicable to real world situations. To consider this, examples of referenda results in Switzerland are presented where the citizens decided against…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2005
Anticompetitive Practices and Liberalising Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean
The last ten years have seen many Latin American and Caribbean nations enact or reform competition laws, and numerous other jurisdictions are considering following suit. The evidential base to guide such policymaking is, however, limited. In this paper we have assembled two databases, one concerning allegations of anti-competitive acts in newspaper articles and another concerning the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2005
Sustainable Fiscal Policy in a Federal System: Switzerland as an Example
How a sustainable fiscal policy can be performed in a federal system is not only a Swiss problem but is also discussed in other federal countries like Germany and Austria, and in the European Union. Contrary to most other countries, the Swiss Fiscal system is characterised by an extensive fiscal federalism with high fiscal autonomy at all govermental levels, by direct popular rights…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2005
Is It Culture or Democracy? The Impact of Democracy, Income, and Culture on Happiness
We look at the relation between democracy and perceived subjective well-being, taking also into account the impact of income and culture. After briefly reviewing the empirical results for Switzerland, we re-estimate this relationship allowing for the relative income position of individuals and also using a new more recent data from the Swiss Household Panel. No…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2005
On the Rationality of the General Public
Using Allensbach survey data about how people look forward to the coming year, we construct true ex-post forecasts and compare them with the forecasts produced by the German Council of Economic Experts and by the Economic Research Institutes. Then we perform rationality tests for these forecast series. The Allensbach forecasts outperform the professional forecasts in many respects.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2005
The Politicisation of EC Anti-dumping Policy: Member States, Their Votes, and the European Commission
This paper examines one political-economy aspect of the European Communities' (EC) anti-dumping policy that has tended to be overlooked in prior studies; namely, the role that member states play in deciding whether to impose definitive duties on imports that have been found to be dumped and that are deemed to have injured a European industry. We find that, in the late 1990s,…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/05/2005
"Soft Law" and International Economic Regulation: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2005
Government procurement : market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules
This paper examines the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices, discrimination and nontransparency. Both policies have become prominent in international trade negotiations, including the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks. We show that fostering either domestic competition or transparency in state contracting tends to…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2005
Option für die Armen: Eine ökonomische Perspektive
Poverty is - from an economic perspective − mainly a structural problem, which may be solved with economic growth. After presenting several concepts of poverty we first discuss problems connected with economic growth and show why it makes sense to fight against poverty with structural measures. The fact that there will be losers as well does not make this a priori invalid. Next, by…
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/03/2005
WTO Dispute Settlement at Ten: Evolution, Experiences, and Evaluation
On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. During its first ten years, the DSU has since been applied to 324 complaints - more cases than dispute settlement under the GATT
1947 had dealt with in nearly five decades. The system is perceived, both by practitioners and in academic literature, to work…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2005
"Competitive Liberalization": a Tournament Theory-Based Interpretation
The current U.S. trade policy of "competitive liberalization" includes the following prominent features: stimulating a competition among trading partners for access to U.S. markets; the inclusion of provisions in trade agreements not directly related to market access; and a greater role for foreign and security policy in U.S. trade policymaking than in the past. I adapt the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2005
The Design of Technical Assistance Programs
The work of the Subgroup on Technical Assistance has been focused on the recognition that the expansion of competition law around the world in the past 20 years has meant that capacity building is a central challenge for the vast majority of the International Competition Network's members. Capacity building is a significant endeavor that includes not only the effective…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2005
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