[Abstract] By drawing on the new institutional economics, this paper presents the hypothesis that the rules-of-law specified by the World Trade Organization (WTO), as an exogenous institution for the Member States, theoretically will shape the Members’ domestic telecommunications regulatory institutions somewhat, but that the actual effects will be different and will depend on the institutional...

Even though widely recognized as one of the core disciplines of international economic law, the interpretation of national treatment (“NT”) obligation has been long marked by legal indeterminacy. More recently, a series of landmark cases, including US—Clove Cigarettes, US—Tuna II (Mexico), US—COOL and EC—Seal Products, have fundamentally reshaped our collective understanding of the NT obligatio...

The article deals with the prospects for Development of the market of electronic payment systems in the context of accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO. The authors investigate the benefits of electronic payment systems for the national economy in the context of accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, evaluate the competitiveness of the russian market of electronic payment sys...

This paper proposes to reexamine the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Taken together in a coherent manner, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification biases, allows general forms of heterogeneous treatment effects, and add...

Redesigning the WTO for the 21 Century November 9, 2009 The Program in International Finance and Economic Policy (IFEP) at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), in conjunction with Columbia University’s Asia‐Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Center, presented a panel discussion about the present and future of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Debra Steger, Professo...

Whether a trade ban on a product imposed because of the fact that the process-and-production-method (PPM) of that product is harmful to the environment can be consistent with the WTO law? The purpose of this paper is to trace what the panels and the Appellate Body of the WTO have done in settlement of disputes concerning this problem and especially to think about a possible ‘evolutionary’ role ...

A game-theoretic model was developed to analyze bargaining between the US and China in the context of linking China’s TCK phytosanitary quarantine on wheat imports from the Pacific Northwest and China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). From this model, scenarios were derived that characterize the future of US-Sino bilateral relations. A spatial world wheat trade model (PNWSHIP) ...

The paper argues that WTO has not been functioning in a transparent manner and that the benefits of globalisation have not reached all countries. If Seattle is any indication, WTO is in fact 'a rich man's club'. Developed countries have been adopting the strategy of prying open the markets of developing countries while at the same time, erecting barriers that prevent access to markets in their ...

Within the next twelve to twenty-four months, the World Trade Organization (WTO) may have to rule on a dispute between the United States and the European Communities (EC) regarding genetically modified organisms (GMO). This Article explains why the organization’s current jurisprudence risks making this case and others like it an unnecessarily explosive and damaging one for the trading system. E...

The global climate regime, as represented by the Kyoto Protocol, may be on a collision course with the global trade policy regime, as represented by the WTO (World Trade Organization). Environmentalists fear that international trade will undercut efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as carbon-intensive production migrates to non-participating countries—a phenomenon known as leakage....