National authorities are presently not willing to install a supranational authority vested with the competencies required to internalize global environmental externalities. Therefore we adopt a dynamic framework of two economies (i.e. Europe and rest of world) and analyze their strategic...

We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...