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The Complementarity of Soft and Hard Law in Public Pr ...

Maria Anna Corvaglia (World Trade Institute) and Laura Maschner (University of Zurich) Paper prepared for the biennial conference of the American Society of International Law International Economic ...

working papers
20 May 2013
A Plurilateral Agenda for Services? Assessing the cas ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2013/29 by Pierre Sauvé

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15 May 2013
Adding Another Level: Individual Responses to Globali ...

Lena Schaffer / Gabriele Spilker (ETH Zürich)

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13 May 2013
Re-Thinking Reciprocity: A New Framework for WTO Disc ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2013/20 by Lorand Bartels, Sacha Silva, Hadil Hijazi, Hannes Schloemann and Thomas Cottier

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06 May 2013
Politics matter: Jordan’s path to water security lies ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2013/19, authored by Valerie Yorke.

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29 Apr 2013
The Impact of Preferencial Trade Agreements on Govern ...

Gabriele Spilker and Tobial Böhmelt, ETH Zürich. A version of this manuscript has been presented to the 5th Annual Conference of the Political Economy of International Organizations, January 26-27, 2 ...

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11 Apr 2013
South-Soth Technology Transfer Addressing Climate Cha ...

Working Paper No 2013/04 by Maria Anna Corvaglia The research project was based on the preliminary research of a MILE thesis project, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Olga Nartova.

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08 Apr 2013
Ethiopia's Food Reserve Policies and Practice

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2013/02 by Christian Häberli

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28 Feb 2013
The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: An Appra ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper 2013/1, under review in the International Journal of Cultural Property.

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25 Feb 2013
Targeting Autocrats: Economic Sanctions and Regime Ch ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2013/31 by Manuel Oechslin

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31 Jan 2013
Globalization and Productivity in the Developing Worl ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2013/32 by Reto Foellmi and Manuel Oechslin

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21 Jan 2013
Growth, convergence and trade: The services sector in ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2013/33 by Anirudh Shingal

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11 Dec 2012
Transitioning to Intellectual Property: How can the W ...

by Arno Hold and Bryan Christopher Mercurio

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30 Oct 2012
The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Vertical Speci ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No 2012/36 by Javier Lopez Gonzalez

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12 Sep 2012
Readmission Agreements of EU Member States: A Case fo ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper 2012/ 35 by Marion Panizzon; Forthcoming in 31(4) Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2012.

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07 Sep 2012
Business as Usual? An Appraisal of the Implementation ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper 2012/33; accepted in the European Law Review, forthcoming 2013.

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22 Aug 2012
Globalization and Protection of Employment

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2012/20 by Dr. Justina A.V. Fischer

 
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19 Jul 2012
Food Security, Foreign Direct Investment and Multilev ...

paper presented by Christian Häberli and Fiona Smith at the SIEL 3rd biennial global conference held in Singapore, 12-14 July 2012.

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12 Jul 2012
New Determinants for New Free Trade Agreements: Gover ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No 2012/32 by Javier Lopez Gonzalez

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04 Jul 2012
The UNFCCC at a Crossroads: Can Increased Involvement ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/30, authored by Joëlle de Sépibus.

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03 Jul 2012
Top-down, Bottum-up or In-between: How Can a UNFCCC F ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/31, co-authored by Joëlle de Sépibus, Wolfgang Sterk and Andreas Tuerk.

working papers
03 Jul 2012
The Political Economy of Settlements within ICSID Arb ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2012/19 by Roberto Echandi

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30 Jun 2012
Broad Concerns about Nanotechnology Patents: Symptoms ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2012/13 by Dannie Jost and Thomas Cottier

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29 Jun 2012
APPLYING NEW GROWTH THEORY TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2012/10 by Philipp Aerni

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29 Jun 2012
Is there a case to be made for a global patent system ...

NCCR Working Paper 2012/12 by Dannie Jost, Heinz Müller, Marina Foltea & Thomas Cottier

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29 Jun 2012
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the Emerging Prin ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/29, co-authored by Thomas Cottier and Krista Nadakavukaren Shefer.

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22 Jun 2012
Mapping Cloud Interoperability in the Globalized Econ ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper 2012/25 by leading experts Urs Gasser and John Palfrey.

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01 Jun 2012
Interoperability in Information and Information Syste ...

NCCR Working Paper 2012/26 by leading experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser.

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01 Jun 2012
The Arduous Process of Climate Change Negotiations: H ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/17, authored by Kateryna Holzer.

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31 May 2012
The Inclusion of Border Carbon Adjustments in Prefere ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/16, co-authored by Kateryna Holzer and Nashina Shariff.

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31 May 2012
Of Bailouts and Rescue Measures: Subsidies in Financi ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2012/24 by Panagiotis Delimatsis

 
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15 May 2012
Financial Innovation and Prudential Regulation – The ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2012/25 by Panagiotis Delimatsis

 
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15 May 2012
Legal Implications of the Use of Export Taxes in Addr ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/15, co-authored by Kateryna Holzer and Baris Karapinar.

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30 Apr 2012
Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Renewable Energy ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/04, co-authored by Peter Wooders, Christopher Beaton, Richard Bridle, Tom Moerenhout and Tilmann Liebert.

 
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30 Apr 2012
The Emerging Principle of Common Concern

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/20, authored by Thomas Cottier.

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30 Apr 2012
The choice of domestic policies in a globalized econo ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2012/09 by Dr. Justina A.V. Fischer

 
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03 Apr 2012
Exploring foreign market access in government procure ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2012/08 by Anirudh Shingal

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03 Apr 2012
Services growth and convergence: Getting India’s stat ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2012/07 by Anirudh Shingal

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03 Apr 2012
Estimating market access in non-GPA countries: A sugg ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2012/6 by Anirudh Shingal

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02 Apr 2012
Globalization and Political Trust

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No. 2012/05 by Dr. Justina A.V. Fischer

 
working papers
14 Feb 2012
The Preferential Liberalization of Trade in Services: ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No 2012/01 by Pierre Sauvé and Natasha Ward

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23 Jan 2012
Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Renewable Energy ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2012/03, co-authored by Tom Moerenhout, Tilmann Liebert and Christopher Beaton (IISD)

 
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23 Jan 2012
Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Renewable Energy ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/73, co-authored by Christopher Beaton and Tom Moerenhout (IISD)

 
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23 Jan 2012
Services Commitments in Preferential Trade Agreements ...

NCCR-Trade Working Paper No 2012/02 by Martin Roy

 
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23 Jan 2012
The Democratic Legitimacy of WTO Law – On the Dangers ...

by Samantha Besson, Professor of Public International Law and European Law and Co-director of the European Law Institute, University of Fribourg

 
working papers
19 Dec 2011
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?

NCCR working paper no. 201149 by Susan Ariel Aaronson and M. Rodwan Abouharb

working papers
29 Nov 2011
Background Paper: Markets for Migration and Developme ...

Prepared for the 2011 GFMD thematic meeting on Markets for Migration and Development (M4MD): Trade and Labour Mobility Linkages – Prospects for Development?, Berne, 13-15 September 2011.

working papers
25 Oct 2011
Die Europäisierung des schweizerischen Rechts

Working Paper No. 2011/05 by Matthias Oesch

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25 Oct 2011
Global governance in intellectual property protection ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2011/45 by Thomas Cottier & Marina Foltea

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05 Jul 2011
Financial Innovation and Transparency in Turbulent Ti ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2011/65 by Panagiotis Delimatsis

 
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05 Jul 2011
Human Rights and Unfair Competition

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2011/66 by Rolf H. Weber

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05 Jul 2011
Implementing and Monitoring Process and Production Me ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/19, co-authored by Sofya Matteotti-Berkutova and Olga Nartova.

working papers
30 Jun 2011
Subsidization of Renewable Energy in the WTO

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/32, authored by Luca Rubini.

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30 Jun 2011
Climate Change Risk Management and Regulation of Serv ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/18, co-authored by Sofya Matteotti-Berkutova and Olga Nartova. Forthcoming in "The New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law, Vol. 10."

working papers
30 Jun 2011
The Cost-Effectiveness of Solar PV Deployment Subsidi ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/31, co-authored by Richard Bridle and Christopher Beaton (IISD).

 
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30 Jun 2011
The Environmental Area Initiative (EAI) Approach to t ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/17, authored by Donah Baracol-Pinhão.

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30 Jun 2011
The Role of Virtual Water Trade in Food Security: the ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/27, authored by Baris Karapinar.

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30 Jun 2011
A Literature Review on Subsidies to Electricity From ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/63, co-authored by Christopher Beaton and Tom Moerenhout (IISD)

 
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30 Jun 2011
Lock-in Situations in the Global Debates on Climate C ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/21, authored by Philipp Aerni.

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30 Jun 2011
Virtual Water Trade and International Trade Law

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/15, authored by Fitzgerald Temmerman.

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29 Jun 2011
Rights to Animal Genetic Resources – basic facts and ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2011/67 by Susette Biber-Klemm and Michelangelo Temmerman

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29 Jun 2011
Livestock Keepers’ Rights

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2011/68 by Susette Biber-Klemm

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29 Jun 2011
Investor-State Dispute Prevention: A Conceptual Frame ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/46 by Roberto Echandi

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28 Jun 2011
New WTO (Staff) Working Paper: The Design of Preferen ...

Since 1990 the number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has increased very rapidly. This paper by Leonardo Baccini, Andreas Dür, Manfred Elsig and Karolina Milewicz aims to contribute to this li ...

working papers
27 Jun 2011
Australian PTAs In Services: “Much Ado About Nothing” ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2011/52, by Malcolm Bosworth & Ray Trewin

 
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27 Jun 2011
The Potential of Tariff Policy for Climate Change Mit ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/36, co-authored by Thomas Cottier, Olga Nartova and Anirudh Shingal.

working papers
22 Jun 2011
TRIPS and Special & Differential Treatment – Revisiti ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/37 by Javier Lopez Gonzalez, Maximiliano Mendez Parra, Peter Holmes, Anirudh Shingal

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22 Jun 2011
Towards a New Age in Special and Differential Treatme ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/58 by Javier Lopez Gonzalez, Maximiliano Mendez Parra, Peter Holmes

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22 Jun 2011
Regional economic integration agreements and investor ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/59 by Andreas R. Ziegler

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22 Jun 2011
The assessment of “good faith” in the the yukos saga ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/60 by Andreas R. Ziegler

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22 Jun 2011
What role for regional economic organizations in a fr ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/61 by Cédric Dupont

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22 Jun 2011
The Impact of the Crisis on Trade and the role of Re ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/56 by Michael Gasiorek & Sarah Ollerenshaw

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22 Jun 2011
The Wage Response to Shocks: The Role of Inter-Occupa ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper 2011/53 by Jeanne Tschopp

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21 Jun 2011
How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalizati ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No 2011/54 by Marius Brülhart / Céline Carrère / Federico Trionfetti

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21 Jun 2011
Buying Greenhouse Gas Insurance: International Trade ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2011/14, co-authored by Gunther Stephan and Oliver Schenker.

working papers
31 May 2011
The Legal Notion of Abuse of Patent Rights

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2011/23 by Michelangelo Temmerman

working papers
28 May 2011
Mapping the Universe of Services Disciplines in Asian ...

NCCR Working Paper No 2011/34 by Rupa Chanda

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19 May 2011
Innovations of Regionalism in Services in the America ...

NCCR Working Paper No 2011/41 by Sherry Stephenson and Maryse Robert

working papers
19 May 2011
The Nature and Evolution of Vertical Specialisation: ...

NCCR Working Paper No 2011/41 by Javier López González and Peter Holmes

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19 May 2011
Animal Breeders’ Rights?

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2011/24 by Michelangelo Temmerman

working papers
16 May 2011
The Legal Character of Sino-African Tied Aid: Cunning ...

Paper presented by Charlotte Sieber-Gasser at the African IEL Network Conference, 5th-6th of May 2011, The Mandela Institute, Johannesburg (South Africa)

working papers
05 May 2011
Methods for Program Evaluation

Working Paper No 2011/26 by Sebastian Galiani and Guido Porto

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04 May 2011
Direct and Indirect Discrimination in WTO Law and EU ...

Working Paper No 2011/16 by Thomas Cottier and Matthias Oesch

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03 May 2011
Sénégal : le secteur privé dans les accords de gestio ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2011/09 by Rougui Ndiaye-Coïc

working papers
26 Apr 2011
Beyond 3x1: Linking sending and receiving societies i ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No 2011/08 | April 2011 by Miryam Hazán Béjar

working papers
20 Apr 2011
Confidence-Building for Global Challenges: The Experi ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper No. 2011/40| March 2011. This paper was written by Thomas Cottier for the World Resources Institute.

working papers
31 Mar 2011
Indicators and Patterns of Specialization in Internat ...

NCCR Working Paper No 2011/10 by Benno Ferrarini and Pasquale Scaramozzino

working papers
22 Mar 2011
Reflections on the Preferential Liberalization of Ser ...

NCCR Working Paper No 2011/05 by Pierre Sauvé and Anirudh Shingal

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09 Mar 2011
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04 Mar 2011
Services Procurement under the WTO’s Agreement on Gov ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper 2011/02 by Anirudh Shingal

working papers
02 Mar 2011
Making Use of E-mentoring to Support Local Growth-Ori ...

NCCR Trade Working Paper 2011/09 by Philipp Aerni and Dominik Rüegger

working papers
15 Dec 2010
Sino-African State Trading in Services: Added-Value t ...

Paper presented by Charlotte Sieber-Gasser at the 5th Annual TRAPCA Conference, Arusha (Tanzania), 25-26 November 2010

working papers
25 Nov 2010
The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights throug ...

by Bertram Boie, World Trade Institute

 
working papers
01 Nov 2010
Keeping Promises: Implementing the UNESCO Convention ...

NCCR Working Paper 2010/17; under review in the Common Market Law Review.

working papers
01 Oct 2010
Border Adjustment Measures as Instruments to Reduce E ...

We analyze carbon-related BAMs (focused on imports) as potential instruments to reduce emissions leakage. We combine an approach from international trade law with an economic approach. For the legal a ...

working papers
01 Oct 2010
NCCR Climate WP4 Paper 2010/06 "Trade and Climate Pol ...

The paper discusses possible legal solutions to the problem of inconsistency with WTO law of border adjustment measures (BAMs), which have been proposed in existing and pending emissions trading schem ...

working papers
30 Sep 2010
Effects of International Legal Regimes and Policy Mea ...

Working Paper No 2010/09 | September 2010 in cooperation with Michael Burkard, Xuan Li, Bassirou Bonfoh and Donah Sharon Baracol Pinhao

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28 Sep 2010
Legal Framework for Cross-Regional Networks: The Case ...

Paper prepared by Marion Panizzon and Charlotte Sieber-Gasser for the International Conference on the Political Economy of Liberalising Trade in Services, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-15 June ...

working papers
14 Jun 2010
Measuring the tail risks of banks

A new NCCR working paper by Martin Knaup and Wolf Wagner as part of their research on financial innovation.

working papers
01 Jun 2010
Export Restrictions and the WTO Law: “Regulatory Defi ...

A contribution by Baris Karapinar has been published on the WTO Discussion Forum: World Trade Report 2010 (“Trade in Natural Resources: Challenges in Global Governance”). It is a summary of his recent ...

working papers
21 May 2010
Third Country Relations in EU Unbundling of Natural G ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2010/06, co-authored by Thomas Cottier, Sofya Matteotti-Berkutova and Olga Nartova.

working papers
05 May 2010
Exporters in Developing Countries: Adjustment to Fore ...

Working Paper by Chad Bown and Guido Porto

working papers
01 May 2010
Escalation dynamics in WTO disputes over environment, ...

NCCR Working Paper by Thomas Sattler, Gabriele Ruoff and Thomas Bernauer.

working papers
01 May 2010
Rights to animal genetic resources for food and agric ...

At the background of the inquiry into the creation of rights to animal genetic resources lie different strands of thinking and various lines of arguments. These are fueled by three major developments ...

working papers
01 May 2010
The Preferential Liberalization of Services Trade

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper 2010/13 by Aaditya Mattoo and Pierre Sauvé

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01 May 2010
Standing Together Apart: Bilateral Migration Agreemen ...

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) Working Paper No. 77, University of Oxford, 2010

working papers
13 Apr 2010
Das Nachhaltigkeitskonzept als rechtliche Kategorie i ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper 2010/04 by Katja Gehne

 
working papers
01 Feb 2010
Trade and labor migration: GATS Mode 4 and migration ...

Paper by Marion Panizzon, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Occasional Paper, No. 47, FES Geneva, January 2010

working papers
27 Jan 2010
Reforming the Clean Development Mechanism to Accelera ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2009/42, authored by Joëlle de Sépibus, published in "Environmental Law and Environment, 2009, 21(4), 189-200".

working papers
01 Nov 2009
The Environmental Integrity of the CDM: A Legal Analy ...

NCCR Trade Regulation Working Paper No. 2009/41, authored by Joëlle de Sépibus.

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01 Nov 2009
Tariff Liberalization and Trade Specialization in Ind ...

Asian Development Bank Working Paper No. 177, November 2009

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01 Nov 2009