Suchergebnisse

Implementing the agreement : partisan politics and WTO dispute settlement / David Epstein, Sharyn OHalloran, Amy L. Widsten -- Dispute settlement, compliance and domestic politics / Leslie Johns, B. Peter Rosendorff -- Developing country use of the WTO dispute settlement system : why it matters, the barriers posed / Gregory Shaffer -- Why are so many WTO disputes abandoned? / Kara M. Reynolds -- The usage of the WTO dispute settlement system : do power considerations matter? / Sebastian Wilckens -- Agricultural trade disputes in the WTO / Tim Josling -- WTO dispute cases relating to food safety issues / Mitsuo Matsushita -- The WTO dispute settlement system 1995-2006 : some descriptive statistics / Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis -- Trade dispute diversion : the economics of conflicting dispute settlement procedures between regional trade agreements and the WTO / James H. Cassing -- Issues of fairness in dispute settlement / Andrew G. Brown, Robert M. Stern -- The ADA and the DSU of the WTO / James C. Hartigan -- Trade agreements and dispute settlement in the WTO System / Wilfred J. Ethier -- WTO DSU-enforcement issues / Joseph Pelzman, Amir Shoham -- Retaliatory trade measures in the WTO dispute settlement understanding : are there really alternatives? / Bryan Mercurio -- Enforcing WTO compliance through public opinion and direct effect : two new proposals to enhance the compliance perspectives for least developed WTO members / Naboth van den Broek -- Unintentional breach in the DSU of the WTO : consultation in the shadow of remedies / Indranil Chakraborty, James C. Hartigan -- Licence to adjudicate : a critical evaluation of the work of the WTO appellate body so far / Petros C. Mavroidis -- The evolution and utilization of the GATT/WTO dispute settlement mechanism / Pao-Li Chang -- Introduction / James C. Hartigan

Eligibility for public benefits may require an injury investigation. The thoroughness of the investigation is a policy decision of the government. An investigative authority chooses the optimal effort to infer from a noisy signal (business plan) the quality of management and market conditions when a firm petitions for benefits. Under plausible conditions, firms will underperform to raise the probability of an affirmative verdict, and the authority will expend low investigative effort. Good and bad managers will obtain relief under adverse market conditions. This is preferred by good managers, as they do not have to separate by sending a costly signal.

Home and foreign duopolists collude in the absence of an antidumping (AD) law because competition law makes renegotiation of collusion more costly than imposition of punishment for defection. Introduction of an AD law with a weak injury standard can undermine collusion by providing a low‐cost mechanism for renegotiation. This induces dumping by the foreign firm and defection by the home firm. An AD law can be procompetitive, in contrast to recent literature suggesting that an AD law can facilitate collusion. The law is asymmetric, providing a greater incentive for home‐firm than foreign‐firm deviation.

This paper develops a model that offers a plausible interpretation for the empirical observation of diffusion of antidumping (AD) laws amongst WTO members. Contrary to the regnant belief that this proliferation is driven mainly by retaliatory motives, our model shows that adoption and use of AD laws involve a cooperative act amongst WTO members in an infinite horizon game. The diffusion of AD laws need not result in a Prisonner.s dilemma. Instead we show that the AD agreement of the WTO can serve as a risk-sharing vehicle amongst WTO members in response to adverse shocks incurred by domestic producers.

This second volume of the Handbook of International Trade focuses on the economic and legal analysis of international laws and institutions as they impact trade. Containing chapters written by both economic and legal scholars, this volume encourages cross-discipline discussion with writing that is accessible to those approaching the material from any background. Central issues to those studying international trade are addressed, including:labor, environmental rights, and preferential trade agreements antitrust policy patent rights