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Diderich, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6102-8_16

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“…Industrialized countries in particular have used a number of other instruments to coordinate regulatory policies. The OECD (Diderich 2007), the Codex Alimentarius for sanitary and phytosanitary standards in the United Nations (Veggeland and Borgen 2005), the United Nations Environment Program (Ivanova 2007), and countless other international institutions provide states the fora and channels to coordinate policies at a low cost, although their enforcement capacity is limited. As for evidence, Holzinger et al.…”

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Regulation under Economic Globalization1

Urpelainen¹

2010

International Studies Quarterly

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How does economic globalization shape the regulations that states enact to control negative externalities? Previous research downplays the role of international cooperation and the present historical context, so it cannot offer a coherent theoretic account of the empirical record. I construct a formal model in which states can engage in regulatory cooperation to coordinate their policies. I prove three main results. First, a “race to the bottom” is unlikely because it requires non‐cooperative adjustments by industrialized countries. Second, a partial “race to the top” is likely because many emerging countries stand to gain from reduced negative externalities and the competitiveness problem is limited when the most lucrative export markets are already regulated. Finally, powerful industrialized countries with a high regulatory capacity benefit from a global expansion of regulation.

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