Endogenous Minimum Participation in International Environmental Treaties

Optimal Transfers and Participation Decisions in International Environmental Agreements1

The literature on international environmental agreements has recognized the role transfers play in encouraging participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs), but the few results achieved so far are overly specific and do not exploit the full potential of transfers for successful treaty-making. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a framework that enables us to study the role of...

Effects of International Human Rights Treaties

Bilateral Investment Treaties and International Integration

This paper studies how bilateral investment treaties (BITs) affect the trade integration between partner countries. While the overall results from the full sample show that BIT signing is associated with an increase in overall imports that is generally smaller than the effect of WTO membership, BIT signing is found to have a considerable effect on capital goods imports and on imports of differe...

Endogenous Participation in Charity Auctions

7 Article history: 8 Received 5 September 2007 9 Received in revised form 19 March 2010 10 Accepted 31 May 2010 11 Available online xxxx 1234 15

International treaties. Comprehensive test ban: the long road.

Watching the waves IMS also has a smaller network of sensors to listen for explosions carried out underwater, just above the ocean surface, or below the ocean bottom. Sound travels very efficiently in water: Kiyoshi Suyehiro of the Institute for Research on Earth Evolution in Kanagawa, Japan, says a 20-kilogram test charge of TNT was detected 16,000 kilometers away. As a result, IMS has just 11...