The 1990s produced a large literature on foreign trade and the environment, including both theoretical and empirical contributions. The paper surveys this literature. It starts by looking at the traditional Heckscher–Ohlin type models of international trade and then moves to noncompetitive...

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for, domestic labor

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for, domestic labor. -- outsourcing ; foreign direct investment ;...

Terrorism is one of the dreaded phenomenons affecting the Nigerian people and her economy. This phenomenon has defiled many solutions. This study examined the popular held view that the "root cause of terrorism" is poverty within the period 1980-2010. That is terrorism is caused by poverty...

This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is...

This paper looks into the investment behavior of multinational firms with respect to their locked-out foreign earnings. The focus is on multinational firms subject to credit and deferral home-country taxation such as that of the United States. “Locked-out earnings” refers to the earnings of...

Just as it may be optimal to regulate firms that produce negative externalities, it may be optimal to provide subsidy to firms that produce positive externalities. This paper studies the optimal provision of subsidy to maximize the value of these externalities, and also whether there are policy...