Publications

International Trade and Trade Agreements

Zissimos, B. (2009); “Optimum Tariffs and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter.” Journal of International Economics 78(2): 276-286.

Available online as Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Paper no. 09-W04, which contains the Appendix with all the proofs; also contains an extra example in the Examples section.

Zissimos, B. (2009); "Why are Trade Agreements Regional?"

Revised!

Mrazova, M., D. Vines and B. Zissimos (2009); "Is the WTO's Article XXIV Bad?"

Available online as CEPR Discussion Paper no. 7144.

Zissimos, B. (2007); "The GATT and Gradualism." Journal of International Economics 71(2): 410-433.

Available online as Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Paper no. 06-W19, which contains extra appendices with an extended discussion of the literature and an example.

International Tax Competition

Groenert, V., M. Wooders and B. Zissimos (2009); "Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition over Standards and Taxes."

Available online as Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Paper no. 09-W09, with Appendices A2 & A3 that contain all proofs.

Zissimos, B. and M. Wooders (2008); "Public Good Differentiation and the Intensity of Tax Competition." Journal of Public Economics 92 1105-1121.

Available online as Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Paper no. 07-W10, which contains an appendix that extends the basic model to include congestion costs.

Dhillon, A., M. Wooders and B. Zissimos (2007); "Tax Competition Reconsidered." Journal of Public Economic Theory 9(3): 391-423.

Available online as Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Paper no. 06-W02, which contains an extended Examples section.

International Trade and Labor

Gregory, M., B. Zissimos and C. Greenhalgh, (2001); "Jobs for the Skilled: How Technology, Trade and Domestic Demand Changed the Structure of UK Employment, 1979-90." Oxford Economic Papers 53, pp. 20-46.

Available online

International Environmental Agreements

Whalley, J. and B. Zissimos (2002); “An Internalisation-Based World Environmental Organisation.” World Economy, 25(5): 619-42.

Available online as CSGR discussion paper no. 63/00.

Wooders, M. and B. Zissimos (2002); “The Efficiency, Equity and Politics of Emissions Permit Trading.” Pages 203-220 in Environmental Economics and the International Economy by L. Marsiliani, M. Rauscher and C. Withagen (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

Available online as Warwick Economics Research Paper no. 586.

Whalley, J. and B. Zissimos (2001); "What Could a World Environmental Organisation Do?" Global Environmental Politics, 1(1), pp. 29-34.

Whalley, J. and B. Zissimos (2000); "Trade and Environment Linkage and a Possible World Environmental Organisation." Environment and Development Economics, 5(4) pp. 510-16.