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Destabilizing effects of exchange-rate escape clauses [PDF]
Abstract This paper studies policy rules with escape clauses, analyzing as an example fixed exchange rate systems that allow member countries the freedom to realign in periods of stress. While well-designed, escape-clause rules can raise society's welfare in principle, limited credibility makes it difficult to implement such rules in practice. An EMS-
Maurice Obstfeld
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Enforcement, Private Political Pressure and the GATT/WTO Escape Clause [PDF]
We consider the design and implementation of international trade agreements when: (i) negotiations are undertaken and commitments made in the presence of uncertainty about future political pressures; (ii) governments possess private information about political pressures at the time that the agreement is actually implemented; and (iii) negotiated ...
Bagwell, Kyle, Staiger, Robert W.
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Escape from Noun Complement Clauses in Avatime
This paper discusses the status of island phenomena in Avatime, an endangered Kwa language of Ghana. We focus on clausal adjuncts, specifically noun complement clauses (NCCs). We show that while standard adjuncts are strong islands in Avatime, NCCs allow
Travis Major, Harold Torrence
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Need for Coherence Among the WTO's Escape Clauses [PDF]
MANY governments think they could not secure the support of domestic producer interests for the trade-liberalizing agreements they negotiate with other countries without provisions in them that permit a degree of flexibility in implementing the core obligations they undertake in the event of unforeseeable or even foreseeable problems.
Messerlin, Patrick
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The Impact of Intentional Breach of Contract on the Validity of Exemption Clauses (A Comparative Study in Civil Law, Common Law, and Islamic Legal Systems, with Emphasis on Judicial Practices and Jurisprudential Foundations) [PDF]
Failure to perform contractual obligations may be unintentional or intentional. Intentional breach represents the most severe form of contract violation, consequently leading to unique consequences not applicable in cases of unintentional breaches, among
Ebrahim Abdipour Fard, Rohollah Rezayi
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Superlative QP “Hyper-Raising” in dialectal Spanish: the role of dormant Edge Features
In this paper I deal with a particular relative-clause superlative construction attested in Spanish dialects like Canariense (Bosque & Brucart 1991) and Puerto Rican (Rohena-Madrazo 2007), among others.
Luis Ángel Sáez del Álamo
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Flexibility in International Agreements [PDF]
This chapter is a contribution to the forthcoming edited volume INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: TAKING STOCK (Jeffrey Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack eds., Cambridge University Press 2012).
Helfer, Laurence R.
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Unifying the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects
This article proposes a unified analysis of the that-trace and anti-that-trace effects in English. Unification of these two seemingly diametrically opposed effects remains an outstanding problem.
Jamie Douglas
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How can advocates of global democracy grapple with the empirical conditions that constitute world politics? I argue that flexibility mechanisms—;commonly used to advance international cooperation—should be employed to make the institutional design ...
Jonathan W. Kuyper
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Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System [PDF]
This Article explores issues at the frontier of international law and constitutional law. It considers five key structural and systemic challenges that the international legal system now faces: (1) decentralization and disaggregation; (2) normative and ...
Laurence R. Helfer +23 more
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