Recently, strategic protective trade policies are emerging. The strategic choices are a result of asymmetric information on demand parameters and a firm's cost structure. In this paper, we will suggest the optimal policy of eliciting private information from domestic firms. The policy is a...

In this paper, we discuss the endogenous formation of climate coalitions in the tradition of the issue-linkage literature. In particular, we propose a preferential free trade agreement on which a climate coalition should be built. The basic idea is that the benefits of free trade provide strong...