Title:A Public Choice View of IP(rizes)
Author(s):LEVMORE, SaulDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:Interest groups have played an important if unappreciated role in shaping intellectual property rights. As economies are driven by ideas, rather than manufactured goods, there is likely to be a reconfiguration of the ...
Title:Quelle Charte Constitutionnelle pour l'Union Européenne : Stratégies et options pour renforcer le caractère constitutionnel des traités
Author(s):Centre Robert Schuman, Institut Universitaire Européen; Robert Schuman Centre, European University InstituteDate:1999Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:TREATYAbstract:L'Union européenne a-t-elle besoin d'une Constitution? Le concept de Constitution est intimement lié à la création d'un État. Or, sans même devoir reprendre ici l'éternelle controverse sur la nature de la Communauté ou de ...
Title:Re-thinking economic development in the WTO
Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.Date:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The disagreements between the old and new trade powers in the WTO on market access issues that have deadlocked the Doha Round are in part a reflection of the “special and differential treatment” that developing countries ...
Title:Rescue at Sea: Human Rights obligations of states and private actors, with a focus on the EU’s external borders
Author(s):SCHEININ, MartinDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:This Policy Paper results from a lecture delivered as part of the Executive Seminar on global governance and transnational human rights obligations, convened at the European University Institute in late November 2011. The ...
Title:The role of economic theory in WTO arbitrations
Author(s):RUTA, MicheleDate:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:How can economic theory be useful in WTO arbitrations? Motivated by this question, this paper reviews the approach that is often used to determine the level of permissible retaliation in international trade disputes (the, ...
Title:Supply chains and international cooperation : thinking outside the box
Author(s):HOEKMAN, Bernard M.Date:2013Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The value of world trade has increased 27-fold since 1950, three time more that the growth of global GDP. An increasing share of that trade involves international supply chains and the global fragmentation of production. ...
Title:Trade Roundtable
Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; ABBOTT, Roderick; CRAMÉR, Per; HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MOREIRA, VitalDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The Doha round has been stalling for over 10 years now. It might not be ‘dead and loving it’ but definitely in moribund condition. Worse, there is no sign of reviving it, in the near future at least. The most optimistic ...