This article further develops a framework of Brander and Spencer (1984) by adding Border Carbon Adjustments (BCA) to compensate for cost differences caused by emissions reduction among countries. On a level playing field, BCA is one-directional in that only a country with a more stringent carbon...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework to take several key determinants of exports into consideration and to propose an empirical model to identify which factors affect firms' export performance, whether to start exporting (export extensity) and how much they will export...

This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consider the total production cost minimization problem by a multinational company (MNC) in allocating...

On June 25, 2013, President Barack Obama of the United States announced his Climate Change Action Plan, listing the specific policy measures regarding one of the top-priority issues of his second term. One of the measures is initiating a trade negotiation on environmental goods, suggesting that...

2011년 12월 남아프리카공화국 더반에서 개최된 제17차 당사국총회(COP17)에서 2020년 이후의 새로운 기후변화체제 구축에 대한 합의를 도출하였습니다. 따라서 향후 국제기후변화체계는 논의 양상과 방식에 다양하고도...

Since finance, technology development and transfer, and capacity building are mentioned as the means of implementation, Korea should pursue more active participation in the climate finance negotiations so that a good sum of international climate finance is channeled into the GCF. In addition,...

A new climate regime is expected after 2020. At COP17 in 2011, Parties of UNFCCC agreed to launch a new process, called Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP), to negotiate a new agreement by 2015. The most distinguishable feature of the expecting new agreement is that it will be...

This study discussed two issues. First, considering the interaction between eco-nomic openness and R&D investment, we investigated their effects on economic growth. Second, we analyzed R&D policy directions under the new international trade environments such as deepening trade liberalization,...

Since it was signed in April of 2007, and after undergoing additional negotiations in 2011, the Korea-U.S. FTA finally came into effect as of March 15, 2012, with the completion of the ratification process in the two countries after six years since negotiations began. Some were hopeful while...

우리나라는 지난 반세기 동안 전 세계적으로 유례를 찾기 힘든 빠른 경제성장을 이룩했습니다. 이로 인해 자연스럽게 경제성장의 원인에 대해 관심이 많았습니다. 다양한 측면에서 이루어져온 많은 연구에 따르면 적극적인...