-rights approach to the theory of the firm, the same force that creates product cycles, i.e., incomplete contracts, opens the door to a …

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade … hampered by the lack of a common language and also suffered from little recourse to economic theory and empirical evidence. The … international trade. We critically review both theory and empirical work to answer three basic questions. What do we know about the …

measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO … evidence that trade has the detrimental effect on the environment that the race-to-the-bottom theory would lead one to expect …

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents …