Kick‐starting diffusion: Explaining the varying frequency of preferential trade agreements’ environmental provisions by their initial conditions

• Published in: World economy Vol. 42; no. 9; pp. 2602 - 2628
• Main Authors: Morin, Jean‐Frédéric, Blümer, Dominique, Brandi, Clara, Berger, Axel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2019
• Subjects: Agreements; Economic analysis; Environmental policy; environmental protection; environmental regulation; International trade; policy diffusion; Trade agreements

Most recent preferential trade agreements (PTAs) include environmental provisions. While a number of these environmental provisions remain rare and are incorporated in just a few PTAs, others are widely popular and are duplicated in more than 100 PTAs. We still lack a convincing explanation for this...