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Trade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results
Cherniwchan, Jevan; Copeland, Brian R.; Taylor, M. Scott - 2016
We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The …-style approach to trade and the environment, its full potential has not yet been exploited. We discuss existing empirical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555551
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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008
role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment-trade …We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264525
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Company tax reform in Europe and its effect on collusive behavior
Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2006
We study how harmonization of corporate tax systems affects the stability of international cartels. We show that tax base harmonization reinforces collusive agreements, while harmonization of corporate tax rates may destabilize or stabilize cartels. We also find that bilateral and full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263899
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How reasonable is the reasonable royalty rate?: Damage rules and probabilistic intellectual property rights
Choi, Jay Pil - 2006
This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual property rights are probabilistic. I develop a simple model of oligopolistic competition to compare two main liability doctrines that have been used in the US to assess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263961
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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007
. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264061
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On the evolution of market institutions: the platform design paradox
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Walzl, Markus - 2007
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to select among them. We ask whether efficient platforms, leading to market - clearing trading outcomes, will dominate the market in the long run. If several market designers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264141
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The economics of politically connected firms
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel - 2007
Political connections between firms and autocratic regimes are not secret and often even publicly displayed in many developing economies. We argue that tying a firm's available rent to a regime's survival acts as a credible commitment forcing entrepreneurs to support the government and to exert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264152
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Tying in two-sided markets with multi-homing
Choi, Jay Pil - 2007
This paper analyzes the effects of tying arrangements on market competition and social welfare in two-sided markets when economic agents can engage in multi-homing; that is, they can participate in multiple platforms in order to reap maximal network benefits. The model shows that tying induces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264187
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Morbidity, mortality, health expenditures and annuitization
Tang, Kam Ki; Zhang, Jie - 2007
In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264199
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A unified theory of firm selection and growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2009
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of … cohort at the US census and the elasticity of trade in Eaton and Kortum. This elasticity is regulated in the model by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265977