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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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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 18/10/2019
Cross-border e-commerce: WTO discussions and multi-stakeholder roles - stocktaking and practical ways forward
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/05/2019
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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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/05/2019
21st century trade and global trade governance: the WTO’s future
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 11/04/2019
The WTO in crisis: five fundamentals reconsidered
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 11/04/2019
Non-discrimination provisions in international investment agreements: a first attempt at conceptualization
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 04/04/2019
Unexpected changes? EU bilateral trade negotiations before and after Lisbon
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 04/04/2019
Climate change and trade: searching for ways to avoid a train wreck
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 29/03/2019
Sustainability criteria in the EU Renewable Energy Directive: consistent with WTO rules? ICTSD Project on WTO Jurisprudence and Sustainable Development
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 29/03/2019
Counterclaims in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) under International Investment Agreements (IIAS)
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 29/03/2019
Climate change and international trade: lessons on their linkage from international environmental agreements
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/03/2019
Climate-linked tariffs and subsidies: economic aspects (competitiveness & leakage)
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/03/2019
Climate-linked tariffs: practical issues
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/03/2019
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
/ 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
/ 22/03/2019
The legal form and status of informal international public policy making bodies: transgovernmental regulatory networks and international agencies
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/03/2019
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
/ 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...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 19/03/2019
Gender-inclusive governance for e-commerce
United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals' SDG 5 places gender equality front and centre for sustainable development. The Joint Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment on the Occasion of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017 brings gender equality to the forefront of trade policy. In the intersection of trade policy and digital...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/01/2019
Global value chains and technology transfer: new evidence from developing countries
This paper uses the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys as a sample of 18 developing and emerging economies to investigate the causal relationship between global value chains and the transfer of technology to manufacturing firms in developing nations. It focuses on one specific channel for technology transfer, namely the licensing of foreign technology. By using a propensity score...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/01/2019
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