Publications des institutions partenaires
Financing for development: editor's introduction
In this double issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy we publish a set of papers concerned with the mobilization of domestic and foreign capital in support of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals that were launched in September 2015. The papers were originally presented at a conference on 'Financing for Development' organized by the International Monetary Fund and...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 04/05/2018
The Hausmann-Gorky effect
For over a century, legal scholars have debated the question of what to do about the debts incurred by despotic governments; asking whether successor non-despotic governments should have to pay them. That debate has gone nowhere. This paper examines whether an Op Ed written by Harvard economist, Ricardo Hausmann, in May 2017, may have shown an alternative path to the goal of...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 13/04/2018
DSGE models in the conduct of policy: use as intended
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 27/02/2018
Using arbitration under Article 25 of the DSU to ensure the availability of appeals
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/02/2018
Global value chains and product sophistication: an empirical investigation of Indian firms
This paper analyses the impact of GVC linkages on product upgrading using the Indian firm-level dataset Prowess, and methodologies of System-GMM and Propensity score matching. Defining product upgrading as a movement towards more sophisticated products, we use Haussmann's product sophistication index to calculate a sales-weighted average sophistication level of Indian manufacturing...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/02/2018
The use of corruption indicators in sovereign ratings
This paper studies the relationship between sovereign ratings and corruption indicators. The paper first shows a strong correlation between ratings issued by the three main rating agencies (Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch) and three commonly used corruption indicators. This correlation is robust to controlling for the fact that corruption is also correlated with level of...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/02/2018
India's proposal for trade facilitation of services: a breath of fresh air for global trade?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
Appellate Body report on EU-Biodiesel: the future of China's state capitalism under the WTO AU-Dumping Agreement
China's unique economic system poses increasing challenges to the world trading system and attracts growing academic and policy debates. WTO members have frequently resorted to antidumping measures in dealing with price distortions caused by Chinese government influence in the economy. The Appellate Body's decision in the recent EU – Biodiesel dispute starts to remove the flexibility...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
A framework for rethinking NAFTA for the 21st century: policies, institutions, and regionalism
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign made the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) a prime target in a heated and divisive debate that questioned the United States' participation in the international trading system. Though campaign rhetoric typically softens as a candidate takes office, this time may be different. President Donald Trump has called NAFTA “the worst trade deal...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
The impact of new regionalism on global value chains participation
This article investigates the impact of trade agreements on bilateral trade flows of manufactured goods. Compared to other studies, it enriches the analysis by decomposing gross trade flows into their value added components, and by considering the direction of trade flows and the content of trade agreements. The analysis reveals a clear pattern in the effects of economic integration...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
The politics of dolphin-safe tuna in the United States: balancing international and domestic constraints (1984-2016)
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
Services liberalization and GVC participation: new evidence for heterogeneous effects by income level and provisions
Participation in global value chains (GVCs) is a key element in the industrialization strategies of many developing nations. Many studies look at the determinants of GVC participation but most focus on do- mestic regulatory environments, the cost of doing business, and trade policy. This paper investigates the possibility that services also mat- ter by empirically testing for a link...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
What holds African LDC exports back?: translating global trade alert data into a positive trade agenda for Africa: background report
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/02/2018
What holds back African LDC exports?: translating global trade alert data into a positive trade agenda for Africa
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/02/2018
Does Greece need more official debt relief? If so, how much?
Creditor countries and international organizations continue to disagree whether Greece should receive additional official debt relief, and if so how much. This paper first shows that these disagreements can be attributed to competing assumptions about Greece's future capacity to repay, particularly about economic growth and the fiscal primary balance. It next evaluates the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 09/10/2017
The changing international linkages of Switzerland: an overview
Over the last decade, the economic linkages between Switzerland and the rest of the world have been transformed. First, merchanting and the chemical industry account for an increasing share of international trade, with chemicals exports expanding robustly in recent years despite the European crisis and the strong Swiss franc. Second, the nature of international financial integration...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 03/10/2017
Why is there so little litigation under free trade agreements?: retaliation and adjudication in international dispute settlement
Over the past decade, the WTO dispute settlement system has continued to be used extensively, contrasting with the very few disputes taken to inter-state adjudication under FTAs. This paper discusses the causes of this discrepancy, arguing that, besides specific procedural difficulties, it may be explained by a more structural difference between adjudication in a multilateral and in...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 03/10/2017
Text-as-data analysis of preferential trade agreements: mapping the PTA landscape
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) form an intricate web that connects countries across the globe. In this article, we introduce a PTA text corpus and research tools for its finegrained, automated analysis. Recent computational advances allow for efficient and effective content analysis by treating text as data. We digitize PTA texts and use textual similarity tools to assess PTA...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 14/08/2017
Scotland and Northern Ireland caught between Brexit, international and EU law: why a custom barrier within the British Isles might be unavoidable
The aim of the paper is to foresee the constitutional and international status of Scotland and Northern Ireland following the triggering of the art. 50 Treaty of the European Union's (TEU) mechanism by the British Government, with a special focus on the possible termination of the free movement of goods within the British Isles.
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/06/2017
Domestic value chains as stepping stones to global value chain integration
We analyze the role of Domestic Value Chains (DVCs) for Global Value Chain (GVC) integration. In the presence of industry specific fixed costs of fragmenting production and of switching across input suppliers, DVCs can either be stepping stones or stumbling blocks for GVCs. Focusing on backward linkages, that is the sourcing of intermediates, we provide robust empirical evidence in...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/06/2017
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