Replication data for: Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement (doi:10.7910/DVN/DYDOIQ)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/DYDOIQ

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Eric Reinhardt; Marc Busch, 2007, "Replication data for: Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DYDOIQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:pVCWe46Yoauetdshe8q4bA== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication data for: Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/DYDOIQ

Authoring Entity:

Eric Reinhardt (Emory University)

Marc Busch (Georgetown University)

Date of Production:

2003

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Eric Reinhardt

Access Authority:

Eric Reinhardt

Date of Deposit:

2007

Date of Distribution:

2007

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DYDOIQ

Study Scope

Abstract:

It has long been observed that developing countries made scant use of dispute settlement under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Less clear are the reasons for this. Most observers insist that the various GATT reforms that were intended to help developing countries failed to insulate them from the “power politics” of the system (Kuruvila, 1997). Not surprisingly, many of these same observers predict that the greater “legalism” of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), in particular, will encourage more participation by developing countries. Indeed, some go so far as to suggest that, enticed by a system in which, unlike in the GATT years, “right perseveres over might” (Lacarte-Muro and Gappah, 2000, 401), developing countries will have greater recourse to multilateral dispute settlement. The underlying presumption, of course, is that developing countries were especially ill-served by GATT’s diplomacy, and are better poised to benefit from the WTO’s more legalistic architecture. We argue that this conventional wisdom is wrong on both counts.

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Data Access

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Related Publications

Citation

Title:

Mark L. Busch, Eric Reinhardt. 2003. “Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement,” Journal of World Trade, 37:4, 719-735. <a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/research/JWT.pdf" target= "_new"> article available here </a>

Bibliographic Citation:

Mark L. Busch, Eric Reinhardt. 2003. “Developing Countries and GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement,” Journal of World Trade, 37:4, 719-735. <a href="http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/research/JWT.pdf" target= "_new"> article available here </a>

File Description--f111031

File: busch-reinhardt-jwt.tab

  • Number of cases: 380

  • No. of variables per record: 30

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:3:pVCWe46Yoauetdshe8q4bA==

Data file for this study

Variable Description

List of Variables:
  • case - Case Number, Unique
  • ds - WTO Dispute Number
  • hudec - Hudec Case ID
  • stnam1 - State Name, Plaintiff (St1)
  • stnam2 - State Name, Defendant (St2)
  • stnum1 - State Code, Plaintiff
  • stnum2 - State Code, Defendant
  • year - Start Year
  • sdate - Start Date
  • title - Title of Dispute
  • concessions - Level of concessions by defendant
  • panel - Ruling body established (panel/WP/Code cmte)
  • ag - Agriculture Case
  • multilateral - Multilateral Case
  • discrim - Discriminatory measures were the target of the complaint
  • wto - WTO Dispute (has DS #) but could also be GATT disp
  • gatt - GATT Dispute (first filed under GATT procedures) but could also have continued u
  • lnpc951 - Complainant's (log) per capita GDP, const 1995
  • lnpc952 - Defendant's (log) per capita GDP, const 1995
  • lng951 - Complainant's (log) GDP, const 1995
  • lng952 - Defendant's (log) GDP, const 1995
  • ruldir - Ruling Issuance and Direction
  • ruling1 - Dummy: 1 if ruldir==1, for complainant
  • ruling2 - Dummy: 1 if ruldir==2, mixed
  • ruling3 - Dummy: 1 if ruldir==3, for defendant
  • sensitive - Politically 'sensitive' case
  • ruling - Ruling Issued
  • wtolnpc951 - WTO*lnpc951
  • settle - Early Settlement: 1 if defendant fully conceded before ruling issued
  • dyad - Unique (unordered) Country Pair Identifier

Variables

Case Number, Unique

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:Smo1rKzextPcJyHFABYRww==

WTO Dispute Number

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:iiqJO+SCLay6oTc+R7aUkQ==

Hudec Case ID

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:6I4WIZ5Gbuvt80yNe+5ZPw==

State Name, Plaintiff (St1)

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:x4JjyeEEeV9nkPsi4+aLLw==

State Name, Defendant (St2)

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:Dkn6SOhbSlHcTHlyCRlyig==

State Code, Plaintiff

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:CZynPB5ei40LqNWY53mCqg==

State Code, Defendant

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:9UJdMXAaYFdNTR3D8KLRow==

Start Year

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:uQUL/YjkZnOCALBHnJBvoA==

Start Date

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:WO8LBsr7FcxpZAzbpX+lbw==

Title of Dispute

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:3:uMyfQeg/vBqfqa2h2p5MXQ==

Level of concessions by defendant

f111031 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

3.

Substantial concessions

189

1.

No concessions

117

2.

Partial concessions

74

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:HxY+LHy+uY/9mNXCa1RaVQ==

Ruling body established (panel/WP/Code cmte)

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:Y1/5HCyexVAsPhEXWV5omw==

Agriculture Case

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:adMySG20gs4zSGmBlY3PEQ==

Multilateral Case

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:jaXYSLcB7lLwepuJNqpfiA==

Discriminatory measures were the target of the complaint

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:twrbAfC8N3xh16vYSdyIsA==

WTO Dispute (has DS #) but could also be GATT disp

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:1rVi8+mLxMFDGsR/6XqYJg==

GATT Dispute (first filed under GATT procedures) but could also have continued u

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:D5Re17+SBk1TGdsSy6cL7w==

Complainant's (log) per capita GDP, const 1995

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:dVFiRDrfKoqXhiq7yqE1zg==

Defendant's (log) per capita GDP, const 1995

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:kepvGSWlz+WOz2ElbbB2zg==

Complainant's (log) GDP, const 1995

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:fJWBlJFWJBTTUS+79OF1/g==

Defendant's (log) GDP, const 1995

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:Z0PlFUlA3Y7GDWWb7tNR1A==

Ruling Issuance and Direction

f111031 Location:

Value

Label

Frequency

Text

3.

Ruling for Defendant

17

0.

No ruling

228

1.

Ruling for Complainant

109

2.

Mixed Ruling

26

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:BHG50SUYa4/pDUz3neMvcQ==

Dummy: 1 if ruldir==1, for complainant

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:h6xVEA3UGaC/L4MlPoDDIQ==

Dummy: 1 if ruldir==2, mixed

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:dNwlHkfOLf8qezI2jfwZQA==

Dummy: 1 if ruldir==3, for defendant

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:9Alsqq5aVe2IqN+ZwcAx4Q==

Politically 'sensitive' case

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:/5JnLCVe8CrQyEkiY5DxNA==

Ruling Issued

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:AbgozEoxDYv2zgiR5unvgQ==

WTO*lnpc951

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:jV+nKz54Djz/r6Fv6UfwLA==

Early Settlement: 1 if defendant fully conceded before ruling issued

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:BjMHkVsSR22DKb3O2J2vAg==

Unique (unordered) Country Pair Identifier

f111031 Location:

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:3:8Ra2g4sIsilpQJH7s4xSWg==

Other Study-Related Materials

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busch-reinhardt-jwt.log

Text:

Stata SE 8.0 output file showing paper's results

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application/x-sas-log

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busch-reinhardt-jwt.zip

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Zip file containing data and documention for this study in original formats

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readme.txt

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Documentation describing the files and documents in this study

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