The loss of international competitiveness domestic industries remains a key obstacle to the implementation effective carbon prices in world without harmonized climate policies. We analyze countries’ noncooperative choices emissions taxes under imperfect competition and mobile polluting firms. In our general equilibrium setup with trade, wage effects prevent all firms from locating same country....

We scrutinize international trade arising from oligopolistic rivalry (reciprocal dumping) in a model where the goods are horizontally differentiated and otherwise symmetric firms located different regions adopt asymmetric strategies—one competing prices other quantities. Unidirectional intra-industry appear endogenously our framework. show that as costs decline equilibrium outcome will transiti...

We explore the effects of Libya's administrative division into Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan on onset Libyan conflict. argue that Tripolitania in particular, followed two different distinct paths political development socioeconomic transformation. While its elites are connected to core statehood legacies Italian colonization, Cyrenaica is defined by localized autonomy economic autarky wit...

This paper examines the implications of imperfect competition in a two-country framework where single good is produced. Using an overlapping generation model, we analyze effects market structures. Specifically, one country assumed to operate under perfectly competitive structure, while other operates oligopolistic structure. Our analysis reveals that differences factor prices between two countr...

Regional integration proposals often require agreements between countries that differ in geographic size, resource endowments, transportation assets, technologies, and product quality. In this asymmetric setting, questions arise about the potential for mutual gains and the distribution of benefits among industries and workers in each country. This paper examines how regional integration between...