Handbook of International Trade, Volume 2 Economic and Legal Analyses of Trade Policy and Institutions

by Choi, E. Kwan; Hartigan, James C.

• ISBN13: 9781405120623
• ISBN10: 1405120622
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This second volume of the Handbook of International Trade focuses on the economic and legal analysis of international laws and institutions as they impact trade.Containing chapters written by both economic and legal scholars, this volume encourages cross-discipline discussion with writing that is accessible to those approaching the material from any background.Central issues to those studying international trade are addressed, including: labor, environmental rights, and preferential trade agreements antitrust policy patent rights trade liberalization foreign direct investment.

Author Biography

E. Kwan Choi is Professor of Economics at Iowa State University and the Editor of Review of International Economics. He is also Associate Editor of Japanese Economic Review, Managing Editor of Review of Development Economics, and co-author of the Handbook of International Trade,Volume I (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).

James C. Hartigan is Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma, and is a member of the Council of Editors of the Review of International Economics and the Pacific Economic Review. He was a founding member of the International Economics and Finance Society, and has published in such journals as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Economica, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What is Free Trade?: The Rorschach Test at the Heart of the Trade and Environment Debate

Rules of Power in an Age of Law: Process Opportunism and TRIPS Dispute Settlement

Teaching Old Laws New Tricks: The Legal Obligation of Non-Attribution and the Need for Economic Rigor in Injury Analyses under US Trade Law

Trade-Related Labor and Environment Rights Agreements?

A Comparative Analysis of Compliance Institutions in International Law and International Environmental Law

The National Treatment Principle in International Trade Law

Do Not Ask Too Many Questions: The Institutional Arrangements for Accomodating Regional Integration within the WTO

Trade and Informal Institutions

The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements

Conditionality, Separation, and Open Rules in Multilateral Institutions

Antitrust Policy in Open Economies: Price Fixing and International Cartels

Modern Commercial Policy: Managed Trade or Retaliation?

Anti-Dumping versus Anti-Trust: Trade and Competition Policy

Trade and the Globalization of Patent Rights

Mixed Markets with Counterfeit Producers

Endogenous Injury

International Trade in Services: More Than Meets the Eye

The Dynamic Effects of Trade Liberalization and Environmental Policy Harmonization

Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote Foreign Direct Investment?

Index

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