Environmental agreements as clubs: Evidence from a new dataset of trade provisions

Economic Impact of Regional Trade Agreements and Economic Co-operation: Econometric Evidence

The paper focuses on regional trade agreements and economic co-operation and develops a new appropriate approach to study their impact on growth and trade. The approach is based on an endogenous trade-growth theory and novelly specified in an economic integration (expenditure) framework which is the conceptual foundation of regional trade agreements. Importantly, it also appropriately takes int...

Dispute Settlement Provisions in PTAs: New Data and New Concepts TODD ALLEE AND MANFRED ELSIG Forthcoming in Trade Cooperation: The Purpose, Design and Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements,

International Trade Agreements , Environmental Policy , and Emergence of Multinational Firms ∗

During recent decades there has been substantial momentum for trade liberalization. At the same time, multinational production has become increasingly important in international competition. In this paper we show that these phenomena may be linked through environmental policy. When the national governments cannot use direct trade policy measures, environmental policy is distorted towards enhanc...

Effect of evidence based medicine training in the quality of journal clubs: A road to evidence based journal clubs

  Introduction: Journal clubs play an important role in teaching Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Evidence based journal clubs focus on real problems of the group, and set a minimum level of evidence for articles to be presented, and in the end a clinical bottom line is set to be used in the daily clinical practice. In this article, we have explained our experience in r...

Overreaching Provisions in Software License Agreements