Sapir, André, Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
There is a growing concern that Preferential Trading Agreements (PTAs) go far beyond the scope of current WTO agreements, maybe creating unfair trade relations. This Blueprint looks in detail at all...
The Case for Tradable Remedies in WTO Dispute Settlement (2008)
Kyle Bagwell Columbia, Kyle Bagwell, Henrik Horn, Jorge Huelta, Matteo Diego-fern, Eduardo Motta, ...
this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Policy Research Working Papers...
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
This article discusses the National Treatment (NT) obligation as applied in the GATT tax discrimination cases. The central thesis of the paper is that case-law has not clarified the interpretation of...
Imperfect competition in models of wage formation and international trade / (1983)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Stockholm, 1983.
National Treatment in the GATT
The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defence in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against opportunistic exploitation of the inevitable incompleteness of the agreement....
Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets
The merger literature almost exclusively considers mergers between exogenously specified firms. This paper proposes an approach to predict the pattern of mergers in situations where different mergers...
Francois, Joseph, Horn, Henrik
We examine antitrust rules in a two-county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral (cooperative) determination of competition policy, exploring the properties of the...
Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets
This paper proposes an approach for predicting the pattern of mergers when different mergers are feasible. It generalizes the traditional IO approach, employing ideas on coalition-formation from...
National Treatment in the GATT
The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against opportunistic exploitation of the inevitable incompleteness of the agreement....
A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C
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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Horn, Henrik, Maggi, Giovanni, Staiger, Robert
We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. In spite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on...
Infant-Industry Protection Reconsidered: The Case of Informational Barriers to Entry
In industries with imperfect consumer information, the lack of a reputation puts latecomers at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis established firms. We consider whether the existence of such...
The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
Trading nations exchange tariff concessions in the context of trade liberalizing rounds. Tariffs, nonetheless, are not the only instrument affecting the value of a concession. Domestic instruments...
The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–2006: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains...
We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral (cooperative) determination of competition policy, exploring the properties of the...
Competition Policy in an Open Economy
Joseph F. Francois, Henrik Horn
We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting, emphasizing the relationship of trade to the goals of competition policy (such as the degree and nature of...
Merger Policies and Trade Liberalisation.
Horn, Henrik, Levinsohn, James
This paper is about the interactions between trade policy and a narrow but important aspect of competition policy, namely merger policy. We focus on links between merger policies and trade...
Worker Substitutability and Patterns of Unionisation.
A strategic three party bargaining model is developed in which one distinguished party, the firm, has to reac h agreements with the other two, each of which is a group of workers. In the...
HORN, HENRIK, MAVROIDIS, PETROS C.
The United States (US) imposed, in July 1999, a safeguard on lamb meat, in the form of tariff rate import quotas, which were to be applied for a period of three years. The measure was based on...
EC Measures Affecting Asbestos and Asbestos-Containing Products
HORN, HENRIK, WEILER, JOSEPH H. H.
Some cases attain landmark status because they constitute a jurisprudential paradigm shift. Others attain such status because in them a decisor, usually a supreme jurisdiction, renders a definitive,...
United States-Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000
HORN, HENRIK, MAVROIDIS, PETROS C.
On 16 January 2003, the WTO Appellate Body (AB) issues its report on the appeal of the Panel decision in United States-Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000). The report concerns the...
We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral (cooperative) determination of competition policy, exploring the properties of the...
Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Francois, Joseph, Horn, Henrik, Kaunitz, Niklas
It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing countries, as manifested in e.g. allegedly too low rates of dispute initiation. To...
Results-Oriented Trade Policy.
Ethier, Wilfred J, Horn, Henrik
We construct a model of economic policy determination by an executive who controls a domestic policy instrument and who can influence, but not completely control, the conduct of trade policy. The...
National Treatment in the GATT
The National Treatment (NT) clause is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against opportunistic exploitation of the inevitable incompleteness of the agreement....
Merger Policies And Trade Liberalization
Horn, Henrik, Levinsohn, James A
As international economic integration has progressed, policy makers have started to ponder the possible conflicts arising from nationally pursued competition policies in more unified goods markets....
Wage Formation and the Persistence of Unemployment.
The basic idea is that employed and unemployed workers have diverging interest s and that wage decisions tend to favor the interest of those employe d. This is shown to imply that unemployment, once...
The Equilibrium Ownership of an International Oligopoly
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the dominant form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but has received but scarce attention in the theory literature on trade and investment. This paper highlights...
Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Horn, Henrik, Maggi, Giovanni, Staiger, Rikard W.
We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on...
A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute...
The Equilibrium Ownership of an International Oligopoly
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the dominant form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but has received only scarce attention in the theory literature on trade and investment. This paper highlights...
Is The Use Of The WTO Dispute Settlement System Biased?
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C, Nordström, Håkan
The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of existence (1995-1998). This has prompted a debate about whether the DS system...
Economic and Legal Aspects of the Most Favoured Nation Clause
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C
The Most-Favored Nation clause (MFN) forbids Members of a trade agreement to discriminate between trading partners. It is typically seen as one of the main features of the multilateral trading...
Infant-Industry Protection Reconsidered: The Case of Informational Barriers to Entry.
Grossman, Gene M, Horn, Henrik
In industries with imperfect consumer information, the lack of a reputation puts latecomers at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis established firms. The authors consider whether the existence of...
Merger Policies and Trade Liberalization
This paper is about the interactions between what is traditionally considered trade policy and a narrow but important aspect of competition policy, namely merger policy. We focus on links between...
Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
Henrik Horn, Giovanni Maggi, Robert W. Staiger
We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. In spite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on...
Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Hoekman , Bernard, Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are under-represented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement...
HORN, HENRIK, MAVROIDIS, PETROS C.
The United States (US) imposed, in July 1999, a safeguard on lamb meat, in the form of tariff rate import quotas, which were to be applied for a period of three years. The measure was based on...
European Communities ? Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products
HOWSE, ROBERT L., HORN, HENRIK
The EC-Biotech dispute exposed the WTO dispute settlement system to a more challenging test than any previous dispute. Not only did the Panel have to take a stand on the limits of science, or...
Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal Aspects
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C.
This paper discusses allocation of burden of proof in environmental disputes in the WTO system. Besides laying down the natural principles that (i) the complainant carries the burden to (ii) make a...
The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
The basic legal instrument in the WTO Agreement regulating domestic environmental policies is the GATT National Treatment (NT) provision. The practical ambit of this clause is largely determined by...
The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements. In the situation under study, imports may cause environmental damage, in which...
Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements
Horn, Henrik, Mavroidis, Petros C, Sapir, André
It is often alleged that PTAs involving the EC and the US include a significant number of obligations in areas not currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition...