In this paper we consider a simple duopoly market in which a home firm and a foreign firm use labor to produce an identical product and supply it to the home market. Firms emit pollution as a by-product of production. We show conditions under which international trade liberalization decreases...

In this manuscript, we demonstrate that sharp declines and increases in the stock market such as the ones that occurred in the early 1970s and mid 1990s in the United States may be attributed to expected rapid technological diffusion.

We look at the implications of a cross-border merger upstream in a vertically related industry where no downstream firm can produce all varieties demanded.