Washington Watch: World Trade Organization decisions put environmental policies at risk

1 Trade , Environmental Regulations and the World Trade Organization

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Settling disputes at the World Trade Organization

Louise Johannesson (2018): Settling disputes at the World Trade Organization. Örebro Studies in Economics 38 This cumulative dissertation consists of five self-contained essays, all of which are closely focused around issues that concern the WTO dispute settlement mechanism (DSM). In Essay 1, we describe salient features of the DSM using a unique data set. We observe a spike in new disputes in ...

Development of International Trade in Health Services in the Legal System of World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization, as one of the youngest international organizations following its 50th activity of predecessor means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the Multilateral Trade System, through the establishment of a General Agreement on Trade in Services, regulated the domain of International Trade in services and by designating Integrated legal framework for the advanceme...

Environmental and Trade Policies: Some Methodological Lessons

This paper describes the results of using a new computable general equilibrium model for the European Union that incorporates local and transboundary externalities to evaluate the effects of trade policy reform. In contrast to all past theoretical and empirical research, this model includes the morbidity effects of three criteria air pollutants as nonseparable arguments of household preferences...

Key Challenges Facing the World Trade Organization