This paper shows how competition between interests can internalize economic externalities groups. The key feature is …, environmental lobbying has a huge beggar-thy-neighbour element …

This paper shows how competition between interests can internalize economic externalities groups. The key feature is …, environmental lobbying has a huge beggar-thy- neighbour element …

production or consumption externalities exist and governments decide noncooperatively or cooperatively on domestic and trade …

Received Theory of multilateral trade agreements, based solely on terms-of-trade externalities between national governments …-of-Trade Puzzle and the Anti-Trade-Bias Puzzle. This paper addresses inter-governmental political externalities in a model with terms …-of-trade externalities. The model resolves the Terms-of-Trade Puzzle if and only if political externalities dominate terms …

Received Theory of multilateral trade agreements, based solely on terms-of-trade externalities between national governments … intergovernmental political externalities into a model with terms-of-trade externalities. It delivers results consistent with what we … actually observe, and thus resolves the puzzles, if and only if political externalities dominate terms-of-trade externalities …

demand by reducing negative externalities. We apply the framework to the database of Kee et al. (2009) and derive ad valorem …