This study considers endogenous determination of domestic standards on products that cause negative consumption externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and...

This paper develops a two-country model of intraindustry trade with trade costs, which can be reduced by public investment in an international infrastructure capital, the stock of which accumulates over time. Depending on the trade costs and international distribution of manufac-turing firms,...

This study considers endogenous determination of domestic standards on products that cause negative consumption externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and...

This note examines strategic import policies in a three-country model with vertical production and trade relationship. Reflecting horizontal and vertical effects of the import policy, each country's optimal policy can be either tariff or subsidy, depending on the relative numbers of upstream and...

This note examines strategic import policies in a three-country model with vertical production and trade relationship. Reflecting horizontal and vertical effects of the import policy, each country's optimal policy can be either tariff or subsidy, depending on the relative numbers of upstream and...

This study re-examines McMillan’s analysis (1978) of a dynamic small open economy with a public intermediate good. On the trade patterns of the open economy, we find results that were overlooked in McMillan’s analysis. Among others, if labor endowment is of intermediate size, there are...

This study considers endogenous determination of domestic standards on products that cause negative consumption externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and...

This paper presents a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model in a small open economy and considers the role of endogenous impatience and consumption externalities in a neoclassical growth model. In the case of socially increasing marginal impatience, there exists a unique and saddle-point...