We investigate the impact of observability of contracts between a plaintiff and his attorney on both the efficiency of the environmental conflict and the fairness of the resulting outcome from the environmental conflict. By including two specific game-theoretic models (an observable-contract...

This paper examines evolutionary stability of preferences by employing deterministic replicator dynamics. The preferences of players are classified into three types: altruism, selfishness, and envy. In the stage game, players compete in pairs to maximize their subjective utilities, and, as a...

The economics literature on mercantilism tends to emphasize gold hoarding and external barriers to trade as defining characteristics. However, medieval institutions included a host of internal barriers to trade as well as external ones. High offices were often for sale as were monopoly...

This paper examines the effects of international ownership of firms on trade pattern and values of firms in the intra-industry trade model. Specifically, we consider the possibility that international ownership of firms affects trade flow and firm values via strategic trade policies. We show...

Han Baran addresses the role of transnational consumer activism in international development cooperation. As examples of consumer campaigns with development impacts, the international anti-sweatshop campaigns in the 1990s, the Fair Trade coffee industry, and the Product (RED) program supporting...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 ‘최근 국제통상 환경의 변화에 따른 한국의 새로운 통상정책 방향'이라는 주제하에 이상의 두 가지 기본적인 질문에 해답을 주고자 하였다. 이를 위해 본 연구의 제2장에서는 최근 나타나고 있는...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 아시아-유럽 정상회의의 출범 25주년을 맞이하여 ASEM 협력 이후에 나타난 다양한 분석을 토대로 한국이 ASEM을 활용할 수 있는 방안을 도출할 목적으로 수행되었다.2장에서는 ASEM이 기본적으로 북미,...

Despite the dominance of the Caribbean as the leading cruise destination in the world, research that focuses on the network of cruise ports in the region is limited. To fill this research gap, the current study carried out social network analysis (SNA) to inquire into cruise port...

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) has gradually become viable because of sea ice melting in the Artic. There is a large and diverse body of research on the NSR, investigating aspects such as weather, the environment, legal security, infrastructure and technologies, shipping transportation, and...