TPP Promoting Financial Services as an Investment Playground: Crystalizing a Change in Approach from GATS?

Antoine P. Martin () and Bryan Mercurio ()
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Antoine P. Martin: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bryan Mercurio: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chapter Chapter 13 in Paradigm Shift in International Economic Law Rule-Making, 2017, pp 223-239 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Considered as a secondary subject matter and largely ignored by international trade negotiators and the multilateral trade regime for some time, the importance of financial services in the wider sphere of international economic law has been steadily rising since the 2008 global financial crisisFinancial crisis . First regulated internationally in the WTO’s GATSGATS and the accompanying Annex on Financial ServicesFinancial services , there remains much work to be done to further open and craft standards and rules for the sector. The text of the TPP had the capacity to play an important role in terms of liberalizing market accessMarket access to financial services and in establishing a new set of standards and rules for their development at the global level. Financial services are both a trade and investment issue, yet negotiationsNegotiations have traditionally placed the issue within the trade ‘silo’ without recognising its important place as an investment issue. Negotiators of the TPPTrans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) , in contrast, have followed the modern trend and added coherence to the issue by dealing with it both as a trade and investmentInvestment issue, and rightfully placing financial services markets as a major investment playground. The TPP appeared to be a significant new player in the field of international economic lawInternational Economic Law (IEL) and this chapter therefore considers the TPP’s potential contribution to the liberalizationLiberalization of financial services by focusing on the idea that financial services may be promoted as a form of investment.

Keywords: Financial services; Financial services negotiations; Trade in services; Trade in financial services; GATS; Financial services as investment opportunities; Financial stability safeguards; Financial stablity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6731-0_13

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