type="main" xml:id="twec12257-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>We examine pollution policy in a unified three-country framework, with the country in the middle playing double roles as both a polluter and a victim. We find that government preference over profits and consumer surplus to be important and so is...</p>

<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading> This paper models the economic aspects of labour standards (LS) in an oligopolistic framework of three countries, incorporating labour-management negotiations in the North and monopsonic labour markets in Southern countries. Contrary to the literature, a higher LS not only incurs a...