Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Bernard Hoekman, Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis
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Petros C. Mavroidis: Columbia Law School, New York

No 769, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are under-represented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on their propensity to participate, the idea being that under-representation as complainants or over representation as respondents would suggest a bias in the system. This paper provides some descriptive statistics that could shed light on a different manifestation of a “bias” against developing countries. It employs a dataset containing information on the legal claims made in each WTO dispute between 1995 and 2006, as well as a rough classification as to whether each specific claim was accepted or not by the respective panel. The data is used to compare the extent to propensity by which G2 countries, other industrialized countries, and developing countries have won the claims that they have made before panels.

Keywords: WTO; Dispute Settlement; Developing Countries; Winners and Losers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F53 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2008-09-30
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