The formulation of appropriate criteria for origin determination is crucial for any country or regional trading block interested in ensuring growth and economic. Perhaps this is the single most important reason that explains the aggressive negotiating stance adopted by various member countries...

During the last decade of the twentieth century Serbian economy has been facing numerous problems, which have only become worse after the global financial crisis. The future status and the possibilities for recovery, among other things, will largely depend on the development of foreign trade...

This paper studies income-redistribution effects from labor migration in a small open economy under alternative assumptions on the international mobility of capital. Our principal result is that induced international capital flows dampen or may even reverse redistribution effects. However, as...

In this paper we analyse to what extent the Nordic economies are vulnerable to external shocks. Specifi cally, we assess the conventional wisdom that the Nordic countries are small open economies that are sig nificantly engaged in international trade, specialised in only few specific industries...

The importance of space in analyzing issues pertaining to renewable resources can hardly be overstated. Many such resources are mobile and spatially heterogeneous with respect to bio-economic variables, with important implications for both domestic management regimes and for international...

The challenges to dealing with climate change are broad and complex. This special section reviews some of—but also brings new insights to—the challenges. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

This paper suggests an alternative way of measuring export instability, based on changes in the geographical structure of a country’s exports. Regression analyses indicate that there is a negative link between the level of export instability and the country’s share of world exports. On a...

In this paper, drawing on international trade theory, I derive the asymptotic relation that holds for oligopolists’ iso-profit curves within Cournot’s game and I discuss the properties of the Nash equilibrium. Thereafter, I provide an economic rationale for such a mathematical relation. The...

Price undertakings are alternatives to imposing anti-dumping duties. In the past, almost half of EU anti-dumping measures were price undertakings. This has drastically changed in recent years. We identify four reasons for the decreasing relevance of price undertakings. First, prior to the...