Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81296 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 730
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
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.
Subjects: 
WTO
Dispute Settlement
Developing Countries
Dispute Initiation
JEL: 
F13
F53
O19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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