The empirical evidence that institutional differences across countries affect bilateral trade is robust. The crucial question remains how countries can enhance trade amid these differences. In this paper, we measure the degree to which governance and institutions differ between countries as...

With increasing global agrifood trade, private food standards and certifications have proliferated. Yet, their trade effects remain ambiguous. We provide further empirical evidence by assessing the effect of GlobalGAP certification on agrifood exports to high-value markets in EU and OECD...

Die ersten drei Artikel (Kapitel 3, 4 und 5) analysieren unter welchen Bedingungen positive oder negative Auswirkungen von Standards auf Handel überwiegen. Wir betrachten die folgenden Determinanten: Marktkonzentration, Produktkomplexität, Qualität öffentlicher Institutionen und die Art des...

The integration of developing countries into the world trading system is an important development mechanism to reduce poverty in these countries. Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have recently spread in terms of quantity and type. Some of these, like the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)...

Agrifood standards impede trade by increasing compliance costs, but they can also enhance trade by signalling quality. This paper disentangles the trade costs and demand-enhancing effects of two important standards-technical barriers to trade, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures-on (i)...

In dieser Arbeit werden die Preisbildung und Preisreaktionen im Naturkosthandel (NKH) anhand eines umfangreichen Scannerdatensatzes untersucht. Dabei werden Preiselastizitäten, Preisrigiditäten und Preissynchronisation sowie die Preistransmission in der Wertschöpfungskette (WSK) bei...