Reforming WTO rules on state-owned enterprises

The purpose of this research is to make proposals to the World Trade Organization (i.e., the WTO) rules to address the problem of granting advantages to state-owned enterprises (SOEs). SOEs tend to receive various advantages, including financial advantages, monopolies and exclusive, regulatory advantages and so on, leading to economic concerns. The problem is typical in the context of China. However, current WTO rules are not sufficient to address the problem of SOEs receiving various advantages. The dissertation makes recommendations to improve them. It makes three types of proposals, i.e., trade remedies proposals, trade rules proposals, and competition rules proposals. It assesses these proposals in terms of the possibility of implementing them, particularly the political willingness of WTO Members to accept these proposals. Lastly, I lay out the framework for the competition rules proposals which prevail in my analysis.

Name thesis:degree_name

J.S.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Law

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2018

Author dc:creator

• Wu, Yingying

Contributors dc:contributor

• Davey, William J.
• Aviram, Amitai
• Keenan, Patrick
• Ulen, Thomas

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• State-owned enterprises
• Advantages
• Subsidies
• Monopolies and exclusive rights

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2017 Yingying Wu

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99475

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/99475