COP17 in Durban revealed once again the general willingness to commit to the 2°-target and the difficulty to reach an international Post-Kyoto agreement until 2015. There is strong evidence from model-based analysis that economic costs of reaching the 2°-target will be below global GDP growth...

The primary objective of this paper is to precisely elaborate the links between trade and economic development and it explains in a very descriptive fashion how hufe investment in socio-economic activities will help economies to strengthen development process Applied Research Economies need...

We scrutinize the impact of international productivity gains (spillovers) induced by imports and exports on optimal tariffs. Our research question reads: how do trade-induced international productivity gains influence the choice of the optimal tariff? Trade-induced international technology...