Calvin, Linda; Krissoff, Barry; Foster, William - In: Review of Agricultural Economics 30 (2008) 1, pp. 120-135
This article investigates the trade impact of Japan's decision in 2005 to revise its phytosanitary protocol for fire blight for U.S. apple imports but retain its codling moth protocol. The analysis presents a participation model to measure the economic costs of phytosanitary barriers to trade....