Publications des institutions partenaires
Does the nature of regional trade agreements matter in promoting trade?
Globalization's 'second unbundling' has drastically altered the nature of international trade giving rise to what might be referred to as the trade-investment-service nexus. Today's RTAs are qualitatively different than those signed two decades ago, since they cover disciplines that go beyond preferential market access. This paper investigates whether the nature of RTAs matters when...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Standards under the North American Free Trade Agreement: fair and equitable/minimum standard of treatment, expropriation of rights and contracts, and the standard of compensation and the determination of damages for violations of the fair and equitable/minimum standard of treatment
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Issues and tensions in public procurement of 'green innovation': a cross-country study
Public procurement for green innovation refers to tailoring public procurement policies in such a way as to promote green innovation within the wider economy. This study considers the nature of these policies, their legal limits, best practices, and how they have been implemented across a sample of four different OECD countries. The study begins with a general consideration of public...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The role of domestic administrative law in the accountability of transnational regulatory networks
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The public-private nature of harmonization networks
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The legitimate regulatory distinction: challenging the boundary between interpretation and law-making in the appellate body
This paper focuses on the nature of the Appellate Body's interpretative method in arriving at its decision to read-in that Article 2.1 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) will not prohibit a detrimental impact on competitive opportunities for imports in cases where such detrimental impact stems exclusively from a legitimate regulatory distinction....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The future of the United Kingdom in Europe: exit scenarios and their implications on trade relations
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
UNFCCC nationally determined contributions: climate change and trade
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
David & Goliath: how young competition agencies can succeed in fighting cross-border cartels
How can small and young agencies cope and target cross border cartels? This paper explores the related challenges and puts forward a pragmatic tool to break down international cooperation barriers. Given the efforts of the ICN in seeking ways and means to operationalise cross-border cooperation in investigation of cases as well as those of selected UNCTAD member States in trying to...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Income tax in the WTO: substantive reach and rivaling proceedings
This paper considers the intersection of income tax and WTO rules. It defends an interpretation of the non-discrimination obligations in line with customary rules of interpretation as stipulated by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. It, thus, departs from the historic assumption that income taxes are not or only to a very limited extent covered by the GATT. Subsequently,...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Legal forms of negotiated trade in services agreement (TISA) outcomes: perspectives on trade integration and an incrementalist approach to quasi-multilateralizationa
The summer 2016 saw some of the key emerging economies change their position on services negotiations at the WTO, which may prove instrumental in bringing services back to the WTO, via The Trade in services Agreement (TiSA). While TiSA parties have discussed critical mass based multilateralization for a while, another approach may prove to be more viable - "incrementalism" and "quasi...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
When global tax reform meets international trade rules: an inquiry into the intersection of the GATS and the BEPS package
This article explores the intersections between the global tax reform launched by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Group of 20 (G20) to tackle base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) on the one hand, and international rules on trade in services, mostly – the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The Folk Theorem of decreasing effectiveness of monetary policy: what do the data say?
It is increasingly claimed that unconventional monetary policies are subject to decreasing effectiveness in supporting growth and raising the inflation rate. There are good reasons to believe that the effects of further asset purchases by central banks and of moving the interest rate deeper in negative territory progressively decline. But has it been happening? This paper attempts to...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/12/2016
The elusive costs of sovereign defaults
Few would dispute that sovereign defaults entail significant economic costs, including, most notably, important output losses. However, most of the evidence supporting this conventional wisdom, based on annual observations, suffers from serious measurement and identification problems. To address these drawbacks, we examine the impact of default on growth by looking at quarterly data...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 12/09/2016
Capital account liberalization, financial development and industry growth: a synthetic view
This paper synthesizes previous studies analyzing the effects of capital account liberalization on industry growth while controlling for financial crises, domestic financial development and the strength of institutions. We find reasonably strong evidence that financial openness has positive effects on the growth of financially-dependent industries, although these growth-enhancing...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 09/09/2016
Eurozone crisis: it’s about demand, not competitiveness
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 09/09/2016
Firm response to competitive shocks: evidence from Chinas minimum wage policy
The large regional variation of minimum wage changes in 2002—08 implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital in low-wage firms, reduce employment growth, but also accelerate total factor productivity...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 24/08/2016
Saving China's stock market
What were the economic benefits and costs of preventing a stock market meltdown during the summer of 2015 by the Chinese government intervention? We answer this question by estimating the value creation for the stocks purchased by the government between the period starting with the market crash in mid-June and the market recovery in September. We find that the government intervention...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 24/08/2016
The IMF’s role in Greece in the context of the 2010 stand-by arrangement
In April 2010, Greece became the first euro area country to request financial support from the IMF. The IMF joined the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB)—thus constituting what informally came to be known as the troika—in providing emergency financing, with the Fund’s contribution taking the form of a €30 billion three-year Stand-By Arrangement (SBA)...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/08/2016
Brexit Beckons: thinking ahead by leading economists
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/08/2016
Pages
Le portail de l'information économique suisse
© 2016 Infonet Economy