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How Do Differing Standards Increase Trade Costs? The Case of Pallets
Raballand, Gaël - 2017
and to support actively harmonization at the global level (within International Organization for Standardization) and at …
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Firms'And States'Responses to Laxer Environmental Standards
Cordella, Tito - 2019
On June 1, 2017, President Trump announced the United States' withdrawal from the Paris agreement on climate change. Despite this decision, American firms continued investing in low-carbon technologies and some states committed to tougher environmental standards. To understand this apparent...
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Product Standards and Firms? Export Decisions
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
The paper estimates the effect of product standards on firms? export decisions using two novel datasets. The first covers all exporting firms in 42 developing countries. The second covers pesticide standards for 243 agricultural and food products in 63 importing countries over 2006?12. The...
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Transition to Clean Capital, Irreversible Investment and Stranded Assets
Rozenberg, Julie - 2017
This paper uses a Ramsey model with two types of capital to analyze the optimal transition to clean capital when polluting investment is irreversible. The cost of climate mitigation decomposes as a technical cost of using clean instead of polluting capital and a transition cost from the...
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The Effect of Product Standards on Agricultural Exports from Developing Countries
Ferro, Esteban - 2017
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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Food Standards and Exports : Evidence from China
Mangelsdorf, Axel - 2017
Using a new database on Chinese food standards, this paper estimates the impact of volunta-ry and mandatory standards on its agricultural and food exports. The dataset covers seven Chinese products from 1992 to 2008. The findings here indicate that standards have a posi-tive effect on China's...
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International Harmonization of Product Standards and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
Reyes, Daniel - 2017
As free trade areas have proliferated and statutory tariffs have been dramatically reduced in recent decades, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to international trade have risen in importance. Destination-specific product standards are one of the major types of NTBs as they impose additional costs on...
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The Role of Standards in Global Value Chains
Kaplinsky, Raphael - 2017
Standards have become an increasingly important dimension in global trade. Without the capacity to meet the growing body of standards, producers may either have difficulty in entering global markets, or be relegated to unprofitable and low-margin niches. This paper overviews the history of...
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Regionalism in Standards : Good or Bad for Trade?
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - 2016
Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and unconditionally blessed by multilateral trade rules. The authors find, theoretically and empirically, that such agreements increase trade between participating countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world....
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Macroinsurance for Microenterprises : A Randomized Experiment in Post-Revolution Egypt
Groh, Matthew - 2017
macroeconomic and political uncertainty. Demand for macroeconomic shock insurance was high; 36.7 percent of microentrepreneurs in … the treatment group purchased insurance. However, purchasing insurance does not change the likelihood that a business … microenterprises. However, insurance may still be of value to help firms cope with shocks when they do occur, but the paper is unable …
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