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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

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Francois, Joseph (Johannes Kepler University, Linz)
Horn, Henrik () (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))
Kaunitz, Niklas () (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

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Abstract

It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing countries, as manifested in e.g. allegedly too low rates of dispute initiation. To shed light on this issue, this study analyses the determinants of developing country participation in the DS system, using bilateral industry-level trade data, and a data set on dispute initiation that is significantly richer than what has been employed in the literature. But the study also points to a number of fundamental conceptual and data problems that beset the whole empirical literature that seeks to draw policy conclusions based on country participation in the DS system. While perhaps appreciated by researchers working in this area, these problems appear to go unnoticed by practitioners drawing on this literature.

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Paper provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics in its series Working Paper Series with number 730.

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Date of creation: 31 Jan 2008
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Keywords: WTO; Dispute Settlement; Developing Countries; Dispute Initiation;

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F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
F53 - International Economics - - International Relations and International Political Economy - - - International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations
O19 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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