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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Yours is bigger than mine! : could an index like the PSE help in understanding the comparative incidence of industrial subsidies?
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/52, Global Governance Programme-409, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: State support remains a leading cause of tension in international commercial relations. Governments can see trade distortions that look like they were caused by industrial subsidies, but they lack the [...]
Informal learning and WTO renewal : using thematic sessions to create more opportunities for dialogue
- Type: Working Paper
- Year of Publication: 2020
- Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS, 2020/51, Global Governance Programme-408, [Global Economics]
- Abstract: Thematic sessions are a broad class of meetings that are sponsored by or associated with a WTO body in some way, but that are not part of its formal meetings. [...]
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