A growing body of literature suggests that political factors are one of the major causes of environmental damage in developing countries endowed with a relative abundance of renewable resources. This has prompted calls for the use of trade sanctions to encourage sustainable resource management practices in these countries. This paper develops a model to assess the interaction between political ...

We present a theory of why some countries negotiate trade agreements during economic downturns. We argue that political leaders can gain from such agreements because of the signals they send to their publics. Publics are less likely to blame leaders for bad economic conditions when they have implemented sound economic policies, such as signing and implementing agreements designed to liberalize ...

We present the C-STAR Italian Generator (XIG), a system for generating Italian text from the interlingua content representation (Interchange Format) adopted within the C-STAR II speech to speech translation project. The constraints of the application scenario led us to develop a generator based on Mixed Representations, providing a good trade-oo between exibility and eeciency.

[The Klein/Gronicki/Kosaka contributions dig deeply into the impact of revolutionary political change in Eastern European countries upon their economies and indirectly through trade upon Western European economies, focussing particularly on the repercussions of anticipated arms cutbacks. However, when we examine trade, a critical issue to most national and regional economies, and a phenomena th...

Building on the framework of Maggi and Rodr̀ıguez-Clare (1998), this paper will explore whether a small country facing domestic political pressures values joining a trade agreement with flexibility in the form of an escape clause (a feature included in many trade agreements, including the WTO). More specifically, this paper will examine if a government would prefer to join a trade agreement with...