Croatia as a Central European transition economy has acceded to the WTO relatively late (2000). Joining the WTO has been seen as a prerequisite for gaining access to the European regional markets (the EU and CEFTA). More importantly however a membership in the WTO was supposed to provide a...

Models with imperfect competition and intra-industry trade have become widely accepted as appropriate frameworks within which to analyze the impact of trade liberalization on industrial agglomeration. This paper makes one modification to the standard model; it allows for taxation of...

A three-sector model of trade and location where two sectors produce intermediate inputs to the third sector is constructed. One of the intermediate sectors is located in the South and produces a freely traded homogenous input, while the other produces a differentiated input which is traded...

Post-production services, such as sales, distribution, and maintenance, comprise a crucial element of business activity. A foreign firm faces a higher cost to perform such services than its domestic rival because of the lack of proximity to customers. We explore an international duopoly model in...

This paper studies greenhouse-gas (GHG) emission controls in the presence of carbon leakage through international firm relocation. The Kyoto Protocol requires developed countries to reduce GHG emissions by a certain amount. Comparing emission quotas with emission taxes, we show that taxes...

Liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991 increased the intensity of international competition and changed the internal information needs of Indian managers. This paper explores the evolution of a broad range of management accounting practices in 14 firms using a contingency theory framework....

Environmentalists and economists alike have assumed that greater economic openness will lead to increased industrial pollution in developing countries. This paper argues that trade liberalization does not necessarily result in more pollution intensive industrial development using the case of two...