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To Spray or Not to Spray? Pesticides, Banana Exports, and Food Safety

Wilson, John S. - Tsunehiro Otsuki - 2013

How governments regulate food safety and environmental protection, including pesticide residue levels, has important … implications for trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001, included statements on … question in food safety and environmental standards: Do regulations on pesticide have an effect on trade? They examine …

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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation : Do Standards Matter to Trade?

Wilson, John S.; Sewadeh, Mirvat - Tsunehiro Otsuki - 2013

How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World …

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Help or Hindrance? The Impact of Harmonized Standards on African Exports

Czubala, Witold; Shepherd, Ben; Wilson, John S. - 2012

international norms, including through the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, promise concrete benefits …

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The Cost of Compliance with Product Standards for Firms in Developing Countries : An Econometric Study

Maskus, Keith E.; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Wilson, John S. - 2012

importing countries. They use firm-level data generated from 16 developing countries in the World Bank Technical Barriers to … more limited exports to countries with import regulations may not conform to World Trade Organization rules encouraging …

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The Effect of Product Standards on Agricultural Exports from Developing Countries

Ferro, Esteban; Wilson, John S.; Otsuki, Tsunehiro - 2013

The authors create a standards restrictiveness index using newly available data on maximum residue levels of pesticides for 61 importing countries. The paper analyzes the impact that food safety standards have on international trade of agricultural products. The findings suggest that more...

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Crises, Capital Controls, and Financial Integration

Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, … - 2012

This paper analyzes the effects of capital controls and crises on international financial integration, using data on stocks from emerging economies that trade in domestic and international markets. The cross-market premium (the ratio between the domestic and international market price of...

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Bank Involvement with SMEs : Beyond Relationship Lending

de la Torre, Augusto; Mart??nez Per??a, Mar??a Soledad; … - 2012

The "conventional wisdom" in academic and policy circles argues that, while large and foreign banks are generally not interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an advantage in doing so because they can overcome SME opaqueness through relationship lending. This paper shows that there...

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International Financial Integration through Equity Markets : Which Firms from Which Countries Go Global?

Claessens, Stijn; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

equity, and cross-listing in major world stock markets. Using a large sample of 39,517 firms from 111 countries covering the …

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The Data Chase : What's Out There on Trade Costs and Nontariff Barriers?

Bagai, Shweta; Wilson, John S. - 2012

has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on trade facilitation over the past several years to catalogue data …

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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation

Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

By documenting the evolution of Tobin's q before, during, and after firms internationalize, the authors provide evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, they find that...

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