Economic espionage can yield desirable strategic effects as well as cost savings for firms in a spying country. The spying country will typically gain even though counter-espionage operations will often be conducted by target countries. When two producing countries spy on each other, it is...

This article provides a systematic game-theoretic analysis of retaliatory export subsidies where each country's government is driven by political -economy considerations. The model provides a powerful explanation of both the grain wars of the 1980s and the difficulties facing the post-Uruguay...

This paper examines the dynamics of learning and experience that underlie technology transfer using a North-South trade model with a continuum of goods. Since North is historically more experienced than South, it initially produces the most advanced goods and pays higher wages. Whenever there is...