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Two non-discrimination principles underlie the World Trade Organization Agreement, as well as many regional trade agreements. The "Most Favored Nation" clause (MFN) essentially requires that equal tre…

Handelsavtal är med nödvändighet höggradigt “inkompletta” -- de implementerar inte de ekonomiska utfall som skulle väljas om kontraktsparterna hade fullständig information och kunde kontraktera kostna…

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 pol…

WTO:s domstolsväsen är centralt för medlemmarnas möjlighet att tillvarata sina lagenliga intressen. Mekanismen påverkar också incitamenten att genomföra ytterligare liberaliseringar, såsom de som för…

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. This…

WTO-avtalet innehåller en rad avtalsklausuler som begränsar medlemsländernas möjlighet att fritt använda inhemska ekonomisk-politiska instrument. Avtalets mest centrala klausul med sådan effekt är ”Na…

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 t…

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the dominant form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but has only received scarce attention in the theory literature on trade and investment. This paper highligh…

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 highlight…

This paper proposes an approach for prediction the pattern of mergers when different mergers are feasible. It generalizes the traditional IO approach, employing ideas on coalition-formation from coope…