's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering … a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows R&D spillovers under imperfect IPRs. JV is the equilibrium market …

, development levels, structure of the agricultural sectors, and trade policies for agricultural products. Bargaining coalitions are …

This paper investigates the link between trade and environment by exploring the effects of green tariffs on the … latter a higher market share, (3) creating abatement R&D by deterring delocation. …

This paper shows how distance may be used to coordinate on a unique equilibrium in which trade agreements are regional …. Trade agreement formation is modeled as coalition formation. In a standard trade model with no distance between countries, a … familiar problem of coordination failure arises giving rise to multiple equilibria; any one of many possible trade agreements …

. This paper presents the key issues surrounding the liberalization of trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in … Members are divided by this key issue, the paper explores options to move current negotiations on the liberalization of trade … degree of flexibility to accommodate different situations and stakes in the liberalization of trade in environmental goods …

This paper aims at modeling a global CGE trade model for the EU15 subnational regions. This model is used to assess … source of heterogeneity across regions. A stylized model is built to interpret trade policy effects. Results show decreases …

produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China’s energy mix, as Beijing …

effective in preventing contract violation up to a critical level of absorptive capacity. We relate this to the US Trade …

trade costs shifts from the market share losses brought by PI from the more to the less productive firm. This induces the … rights regime, a move by a technologically inferior firm to exploit a new unregulated market can result in imitation and PI …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing …