WTO dispute settlement and the appellate body crisis : insider perceptions and members’ revealed preferences
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/95, Global Governance Programme-379, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: The WTO dispute settlement system is in crisis, endangering the future of the organization. The proximate reason for alarm is the dwindling number of Appellate Body (AB) members, the result [...]
Betraying dignity : the toxic seduction of social media, shaming, and radicalization
- Type: Book
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Citation: London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019
- Series/Report no.: [Global Governance Programme], [Cultural Pluralism]
- Abstract: What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common? Betraying Dignity argues that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, individuals, political parties and nations around [...]
Policy uncertainty, trade, and global value chains: some facts, many questions
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/92, Global Governance Programme-378, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: This paper attempts to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty on overall trade and trade linked to global value chains. Using new data on policy uncertainty for 18 countries [...]
Backward and forward integration along global value chains
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/91, Global Governance Programme-377, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Backward and forward vertical integrations both shape the organization of Global Value Chains (GVCs). Yet, many studies make the unrealistic assumption that integration decisions are binary and one-directional, i.e., companies [...]
Subsidy determination, benchmarks and adverse inferences : assessing ‘benefit' in US – coated paper (Indonesia)
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/76, Global Governance Programme-366, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: This paper presents a legal-economic analysis of key aspects of the WTO Panel Report involving a challenge by Indonesia against the anti-dumping and countervailing duties imposed by the US on [...]
Make or buy : offshoring of services functions in manufacturing
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/90, Global Governance Programme-376, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing, matching services functions performed by workers inside manufacturing firms to the same [...]
Deep trade agreements and global value chains
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/86, Global Governance Programme-374, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) have become deeper over time, often encompassing a set of disciplines that go beyond traditional trade policy such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights protection. [...]
Made in the world revisited
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/84, Global Governance Programme-373, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: In the last decade, the concept of ‘global value chain’ (GVC) has become popular to describe the way firms fragment production into different stages located in different economies. The ‘made [...]
The gravity of intermediate goods
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/87, Global Governance Programme-375, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: One of the puzzles of the gravity literature is the persistent effect of distance on trade flows, despite the dramatic fall in trade costs during the last few decades (Disdier [...]
Baptists and bootleggers in the biodiesel trade : EU-biodiesel (Indonesia)
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2019/80, Global Governance Programme-369, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: EU-Biodiesel (Indonesia) is the latest in two lines of cases. On the one hand, the case offers yet another example of the Dispute Settlement Body striking down creative interpretations of [...]
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