Economic Dimensions in International Law
Comparative and Empirical Perspectives

The essays in this collection use interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate issues in international and comparative law.

Jagdeep S. Bhandari (Edited by), Alan O. Sykes (Edited by)

9780521578981, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 January 1998

710 pages, 15 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.3 x 3.7 cm, 0.955 kg

The essays in this collection use interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate issues in international and comparative law, primarily employing theoretical or empirical economics. They demonstrate that the economic analysis of law has much to contribute to the study of international matters, despite the fact that mainstream international legal scholars and economists have had relatively little interaction. The essays take comparative or empirical approaches to explore themes in international trade, trade and the environment, law and development, the political economy of privatization and exchange rate policies, economic theories of international institutional design, immigration policy, comparative bankruptcy, international antitrust, and extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Foreword: Economics and international law Ronald A. Cass
1. Toward a positive theory of the most favored nation obligation and its exceptions in the WTO/GATT system Warren F. Schwartz and Alan O. Sykes
2. Comment on 'Toward a positive theory of the most favored nation obligation and its exceptions in the WTO/GATT system' Alan V. Deardorff
3. The economics of 'injury' in antidumping and countervailing duty cases Alan O. Sykes
4. The economics of 'injury' in antidumping and countervailing duty cases: a reply to Professor Sykes Ronald A. Cass and Michael S. Knoll
5. Innovations in support of the unitary injury test in US unfair trade cases Richard D. Boltuck
6. The fair trade-free trade debate: trade, labour, and the environment Robert Howse and Michael J. Trebilcock
7. Comment on 'Trade, values and differentiating sanctions' Philip M. Nichols
8. International conflict and coordination in environmental policies Alan V. Deardorff
9. The theory of market modernization of law Robert D. Cooter
10. Comment on 'The theory of market modernization of law' William Kovacic
11. Toward a positive theory of privatization - lessons from Soviet-type economics Paul B. Stephan III
12. Comment on 'Toward a positive theory of privatization - lessons from Soviet-type economics' Robert D. Cooter
13. New stories on exchange-rate policies in transition Enrico Colombatto and Jonathan Macey
14. Is deposit insurance inevitable? - lessons from Argentina Geoffrey P. Miller
15. The market for migrants F. H. Buckley
16. Comment on 'The market for migrants' Wendy Zimmerman
17. The interplay of liquidation and reorganization in the bankruptcy systems of Canada and the US: the role of screens, gatekeepers, and guillotines George G. Triantis
18. International political economy approaches to international institutions Duncan Snidal
19. The trade effects of domestic antitrust enforcement Diane P. Wood
20. The Hartford Insurance Company case: antitrust in the global economy - welfare effects and sovereignty Alan C. Swan
21. Recognition of foreign judgements as a trade law issue: the economics of private international law Ronald A. Brand
22. Externalities and extraterritoriality: the law and economics of prescriptive jurisdiction Joel P. Trachtman.

Subject Areas: International economic & trade law [LBBM]