The WTO members are conducting negotiations to clarify and improve disciplines on fisheries subsidies at the Doha Round. In this paper, I investigate how worldwide subsidy reform in the fisheries sector could affect fisheries output and resource stocks in a trading equilibrium. I demonstrate...

In this paper, we examine strategic R&D policy for quality-differentiated products in a thirdmarket trade model. We extend the previous work by adding a third exporting country, so that the market structure is international triopoly. We show that the presence of the third exporting country...

We examine whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) enhance international technology spillovers by using a panel of patent application and citation data for 142 countries/regions during 1990–2006 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We use patent citation data as a proxy for...

We investigate empirically how regional integration affects technology spillovers among trade partners. We measure the extent of technology spillovers by using patent citation data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our main finding, from employing the gravity model, is that...

In this paper, we develop a two-country model of monopolistic competition with quality differentiation by extending the model of Melitz and Ottaviano (2008) and examine the relationship between the bilateral trade structure and international technology spillovers. We show that bilateral trade...

We analyze how the implementation of an emission tax influences aggregate pollution through the diffusion of a new, less polluting technology. Our focus is on how the consumption behavior of green consumers changes the relationship between policy stringency and the equilibrium state of...

We examine the optimal rules of origin (ROO) in a free trade area/agreement (FTA). We incorporate compliance costs of the ROO into the model. In particular, compliance costs are higher for a firm located in a non-member country of the FTA than for a firm located in an FTA member country,...