How did trade in GVC-based products respond to previous health shocks? : lessons for COVID-19
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/68, Global Governance Programme-415, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Using difference-in-difference analysis, we examine how trade in GVC-based products may have responded to two previous health shocks - SARS and MERS. Our identification strategy exploits differences in the time [...]
Value chain approaches to reducing policy spillovers on international business
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/49, Global Governance Programme-407, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Government policy can add to the costs of doing international business. It can distort the construction of and raise the costs of operation of global value chains (GVCs), to the [...]
Overlapping negotiations, conflicting interests? : EU-Singapore negotiations
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/67, Global Governance Programme-414, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: In 2013, the European Union (EU) concluded its first comprehensive trade agreement with a Southeast Asian partner. The EU-Singapore agreement (EUSFTA) was meant as a blueprint for further negotiations in [...]
Export restrictions during global health crises : the international community can and must do better
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/66, Global Governance Programme-413, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: COVID-19 represents one of the biggest pandemic faced by humanity in recent times, spreading to almost all countries and territories on all continents. Because it spread so suddenly and quickly, [...]
Principles governing the global economy
- Type: Contribution to book
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Citation: Jorge E. VIÑUALES (ed.), The UN friendly relations declaration at 50 : an assessment of the fundamental principles of international law, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 331-361
- Series/Report no.: [Global Governance Programme]
- Abstract: The main principles underlying the organisation of the global economy pre-date the Second World War, but mostly as ideas or policies, enshrined in domestic law, in international instruments of limited [...]
Quantifying barriers to movement of service suppliers and examining their effects
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/64, Global Governance Programme-412, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: The importance of services trade and “servicification” of economic activity has grown in countries overtime. However, regulatory and administrative barriers to the movement of service suppliers have meant that “Mode [...]
Report on citizenship law : Iran
- Type: Technical Report
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: [Global Governance Programme], GLOBALCIT, Country Reports, 2020/13, [Global Citizenship]
- Abstract: This report discusses citizenship in Iran. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Informing WTO reform : dispute settlement performance, 1995-2020
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/59, Global Governance Programme-411, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: This paper presents salient facts on the performance of WTO dispute settlement, using an updated dataset on cases adjudicated between 1992 and mid 2020. The dataset provides a comprehensive compilation [...]
To AB or not to AB? : dispute settlement in WTO reform
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/34, Global Governance Programme-397, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Recent debates on the operation of the WTO’s dispute resolution mechanism have focused primarily on the Appellate Body (AB). We argue that this neglects the first-order issue confronting the rules-based [...]
Reforming WTO conflict management : why and how to improve the use of 'specific trade concerns'
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/53, Global Governance Programme-410, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: With its dispute settlement system in peril, the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in mitigating commercial conflict is more important than ever, but its working practices need reform, [...]
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