Private authority and international affairs / A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter -- Lost in (cyber)space: the private rules of online commerce / Debora L. Spar -- Private and public management of international mineral markets / Michael C. Webb -- The standards regime for...

As free trade areas have proliferated and statutory tariffs have been dramatically reduced in recent decades, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to international trade have risen in importance. Destination-specific product standards are one of the major types of NTBs as they impose additional costs on...

The paper extends the findings of Coe and Helpman (1995) model of R&D spillovers by considering foreign direct investment (FDI) as a channel for knowl- edge spillovers in addition to imports. Deeper insights on the issue are provided by examining inter-relationship between knowledge spillovers...