This paper assesses the strength of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) which posits an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and pollution, in the light of a number of recent criticisms.

This is a survey of the literature on multinational theory, focusing on its relation to the most recent international trade theory. Although the latter has experienced an impressive development in the last ten years, a comprehensive analysis of foreign direct investments is still missing. This...

This paper focuses on the possible effects on lobbying effort of a reform of the trade policy decision mechanism. In particular, an elemental evaluation of a two-stage lobbying process to seek administered and political protection is proposed, where the uncertainty concerning both the...

Within an open economy, redistributive taxation makes home output scarcer, thereby improving the terms of trade all else equal. This can generate too much taxation and unemployment, and excess taxation tends to shrink, not grow, the larger the economy.

In the developed world the cost of meeting environmental regulations appears to be rising over time. Since the stringency of such regulations increases with economic development there has been speculation that developing countries may possess a comparative advantage in pollution intensive...

How can we best explain the behavior of exports into Britain and Germany from 1975 to 1995? Our study uses a highly disaggregated data det to find some evidence of hysteresis in trade flows (rather stronger for German imports than for British) and the role of technology proxies, particularly...

Are home and foreign products equally close substitutes? Our study uses highly disaggregated data to investigate the home preference bias in the Swedish fabricated metals sector, which appears to be declining.

This paper considers the endogenous determination of administered trade rules and investigates the effects on lobbying behaviour of a less protection-friendly legislative and administered process (which could be triggered by international constraints or institutional changes, for instance).

This paper applies the Gravity Trade Model (GTM) to assess eastern Europe's trade, and trade potential following the major political changes of 1989. The GTM is an analytical framework for explaining bilateral trade flows based on GDP, population and geographical distance between partners.