| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w19256 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 19256 |
| How Important can the Non-Violation Clause be for the GATT\/WTO? | |
| Robert W. Staiger; Alan O. Sykes | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-07-25 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The "non-violation" clause was a major focus of the drafters of GATT in 1947, and its relevance was revisited and reaffirmed with the creation of the WTO in 1995. And according to the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements, it has an important role to play in facilitating the success of the "shallow integration" approach that the GATT/WTO has adopted. Yet despite the prominence given to the non-violation clause by its legal drafters and suggested by economic theory, in GATT/WTO practice the observed performance of the non-violation complaint has been weak. Can a model account for the observed features of the usage and outcomes of non-violation claims? And if so, what is implied by these weak performance measures about the (on- and off-) equilibrium impacts of the non-violation clause on the joint welfare of the GATT/WTO member governments? We develop a model of non-violation claims in trade agreements, demonstrate that it can account for the observed features of the usage and outcomes of non-violation claims, and show that the weak performance measures of observed non-violation claims are not inconsistent with a valuable role for the non-violation clause in the GATT/WTO. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; International Economics ; Trade ; Other ; Law and Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19256 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576931 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Robert W. Staiger,Alan O. Sykes. How Important can the Non-Violation Clause be for the GATT\/WTO?. 2013. |
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