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After The Fall: Financial Crisis And The International Order, Robert B. Ahdieh
After The Fall: Financial Crisis And The International Order, Robert B. Ahdieh
Faculty Scholarship
Recent years have challenged the international order to a degree not seen since World War II — and perhaps the Great Depression. As the U.S. housing crisis metastasized into a financial and economic crisis of grave proportions, and spread to nearly every corner of the globe, the strength of our international institutions — the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the Group of Twenty, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and others — was tested as never before. Likewise tested, were the limits of our national commitment to those institutions, to our international obligations, and to global engagement more …
Economic Justification For Sui Generis Databases, Chana Rungrojtanakul
Economic Justification For Sui Generis Databases, Chana Rungrojtanakul
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
This article explores important economic mechanisms and competition law that have been used to promote the competitiveness of the database industries. Section II explains fundamental economic theories that lead to an understanding of the concept of an efficient and perfect competition within the database industries. Section III analyzes judicial decisions of the two economic parties, the European Union and the United States of America, that apply competition law to create a fair reproduction and dissemination of factual contents and to prevent unfair competition derived from an attempt to dominate the free flow of contents in the market. Section IV examines …
Rules Of Origin As International Trade Hindrances, Hatem Mohamed Mabrouk
Rules Of Origin As International Trade Hindrances, Hatem Mohamed Mabrouk
Hatem Mohamed Mabrouk
This paper talks about the usage of Rules of Origin (RoO) as protectionist apparatuses in different regional trade areas, as the North American Free Trade Area, the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the South African Development Community, and the usage of RoO as trade-diverting tools. In addition, the paper talks about the spaghetti-bowl phenomenon, with an emphasis on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation region, and clarifies how to achieve a proper harmonization of both non-preferential and preferential RoO as a solution to overcome the previously mentioned odds facing international trade. Moreover, the paper suggests the adoption of more solutions as …
Global Agricultural Price Supports: The Political And Economic Forces That Drive Unsustainable Agricultural Protectionism Policy, John Francis Hays
Global Agricultural Price Supports: The Political And Economic Forces That Drive Unsustainable Agricultural Protectionism Policy, John Francis Hays
Dissertations
Agricultural tariffs and price supports are the last bastion of US and European protectionism. While all other areas of commerce have embraced change and welcomed open-market international commerce, agriculture has remained the lone holdout.
The small farmers for whom these support programs were designed no longer exist. Yet governments appropriate billions of dollars annually for the continued support of these outdated programs.
The fact that these governmental agencies resist change, even in an age of economic crises, record national debt, and one of the highest negative trade balances in history, is testimony to American civic indifference.
Public apathy precludes timely …