Burnquist, Heloisa Lee; Shutes, Karl; Rau, Marie-Luise; … - 2011
costs and thus hamper international trade. In this paper, we introduce two regulatory heterogeneity indexes which are … subsequently applied to the case maximum residue levels (MRLs) of pesticides. The Heterogeneity Index of Trade (HIT) reflects the … costs. Taking the HIT index as a starting point, the Actual Heterogeneity Index (AHI) specially considers the situation …