Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with U.S. product standards, using a new database on U.S. import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing...

Consumer concerns in food purchasing contain a number of attributes, including the nutritional and sanitary values, conditions of breeding and selling, and other social issues. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an analytical and an empirical approaches to estimating the marginal...

We Present Several Small-Sample Results on the Distribution of Residuals and Estimators of the Disturbance Variance in Econometric Models. We Consider General Linear and Nonlinear Models with Stochastic Regressors and Possibly Nonlinear Restrictions on the Parameters. These Include...

We Tabulate the Limiting Cumulative Distribution and Probability Density Functions of the Least Squares Estimator in a First-Order Autoregressive Regression When the True Model Is Near-Integrated in the Sense of Phillips (1986 A). the Results Are Obtained Using an Exact Numerical Method Which...