The service economy: U.S. trade coalitions in an era of deindustrializationThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 14 - Trang 261-296 - 2019
Leonardo Baccini, Iain Osgood, Stephen Weymouth
Services dominate the US economy and are increasingly traded across borders yet little is known about service firms’ trade policy objectives or lobbying activities. We fill this gap by examining services’ political engagement on trade policy as manifested through lobbying, public positions on trade, and reports issued by U.S. Industry Trade Advisory Committees. We document for the first time that ...... hiện toàn bộ
Political-economic problems in trade capacity buildingThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 4 - Trang 329-359 - 2009
Johannes Urpelainen
Theoretically, trade capacity building should contribute to export-led growth and support liberal economic policies. Unfortunately, it often fails to meet this ideal due to resource misallocation, misplaced focus on existing obligations, and donor-driven implementation. This article presents a formal theory of political-economic problems in trade capacity building. I analyze trade liberalization a...... hiện toàn bộ
Optimal transfers and participation decisions in international environmental agreementsThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 1 - Trang 379-396 - 2006
Carlo Carraro, Johan Eyckmans, Michael Finus
The literature on international environmental agreements has recognized the role transfers play in encouraging participation in international environmental agreements. However, the results achieved so far are overly specific. Therefore, we develop a more general framework that enables us to study the role of transfers in a systematic way. We propose transfers using both internal and external finan...... hiện toàn bộ