HENRIK HORN

Professor of International Economics              

 

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CURRENT AFFILIATIONS

 

-         Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm

-         Non-resident Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels

-         Chief Reporter – American Law Institute (ALI), Philadelphia

-         Research Fellow – Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London

 

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PROFESSIONAL FOCUS

 

-         International Trade and Trade Policy

-         Trade Agreements and Environmental Agreements

-         Industrial Organization; in particular Competition Policy and Regulation

 

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WRITINGS

 

Recent work

 

·       “The Burden of Proof in Trade Disputes and the Environment”, forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2011. (Earlier version)

·       “Climate Change and the WTO: Legal Issues Concerning Border Tax Adjustments”, Japanese Yearbook of International Law 53, 2010. (With Petros C. Mavroidis). (Longer version)

·       Border Carbon Adjustments from a Trade Policy Perspective”, ENTWINED Issue Brief, 2010. (With Carolyn Fischer)

·       “Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements”. Bruegel Blueprint Series Volume VII, 2009. Shorter version forthcoming in The World Economy. (With Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir)

·       “Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts”, American Economic Review, March 2010. (With Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger)

·       European Communities – Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products”. World Trade Review 2009:1, and also in Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis (eds) International Trade Law: The WTO Case Law of 2006-7, Cambridge University Press, 2009. (Lead author Robert L. Howse)

·       The Burden of Proof in Trade Disputes in the WTO: Legal aspects”, European Energy and Environmental Law Review 18(2), 2009. (With Petros C. Mavroidis)

·       The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2006: Some descriptive statistics”. In J. Hartigan (ed.), Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO, Elsevier 2008. (With Petros C. Mavroidis)

·       Non-Discrimination”, forthcoming in K. Reinert and R. Rajan (eds), Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2009. (With Petros C. Mavroidis)

·       Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System”. In J. Trachtman (ed.) Developing Countries in the WTO Legal System, 2009. (With Hoekman, B. and P. C. Mavroidis)

·       The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies”, Journal of World Trade 42:6, December 2008. (With Petros C. Mavroidis)

·       Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System”, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Issue Paper No. 6, December 2008. (With Joseph Francois and Niklas Kaunitz)

 

More writings

 

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CURRENT PROJECTS

 

Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law

Henrik Horn is, together with Petros C. Mavroidis, Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute project Principles of World Trade Law: The World Trade Organization. In this long-run project economists and lawyers jointly analyze the WTO Agreement and the case law from its Dispute Settlement system. To date, more than 60 WTO disputes have been discussed by pairs of economists and lawyers.

·       Description of project

·       Reports written so far in the case law project

Reports written in the project, as well as more information on the project, are available at the ALI web site.

 

WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set

Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis has compiled a data set on the Dispute Settlement system of the WTO comprising approximately 28 000 observations on various legal and administrative aspects of all WTO disputes initiated since the inception of the 1995, from the initial Request for Consultations to latest events officially recorded, including officially specified HS numbers. The data set currently contains data through 2006, but the data is currently being updated, and a new version of the data set should be available early in 2011. To access the data set, and the associated User’s Guide, go here. The paper “The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2006: Some Descriptive Statistics”, available at IFN WP No 740, provide some basic findings from the data set.

 

Environment and Trade in a World of Interdependence -- ENTWINED

Henrik Horn is a member of the long-term project Environment and Trade in a World of InterdependenceENTWINED – supported by The Foundation of Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), Sweden. In this project, Horn works jointly with Petros C. Mavroidis on a series of studies on the scope for national and multilateral environmental policies under the World Trade Organization Agreement. The first study in this series, “The Permissible Reach of National Environmental Policies”, coauthored with Petros C. Mavroidis examines the restrictions that the WTO Agreement, as well as the jurisdictional default rules in public international law, impose on WTO members’ ability to pursue in particular unilateral environmental policies. It is available at IFN WP No 739, and published in Journal of World Trade 42:6, Dec. 2008. The second and third papers address different aspects of evidentiary standards for environmental disputes in the WTO. The study “The Burden of Proof in Environmental Disputes in the WTO: Legal aspects”, written jointly with Petros C. Mavroidis, critically discusses the relevant case law, while economic issues are examined in “The Burden of Proof in Trade Disputes and the Environment”, which is forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2011 (earlier version). A fourth paper, “Climate Change and the WTO: Legal Issues Concerning Border Tax Adjustments”, also jointly written with Petros C. Mavroidis, is forthcoming in the Japanese Yearbook of International Law 53, 2010.

 

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CONSULTANCY WORK

 

Henrik Horn does consultancy work at the intersection of economics and law in areas such as WTO Dispute Settlement, Competition Policy, Regulation, and Sports Economics.

 

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PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

 

·       Brief biography

·       Professional experience

 

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CONTACT

 

Email: A@B where A is henrik.horn and B is econ-law.se

Phone: +46 8 665 45 40

 

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Updated: 9 December 2010