We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the … on trade and to methods that provide some quantitative estimates of the impact of such barriers on market equilibrium …, trade flows, economic efficiency, and welfare. Given the heterogeneous nature of these regulations, a unifying methodology …

sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the US sugar program; and a final section … program is becoming unsustainable because sugar imports are progressively creeping into the US market through regional trade … reductions in amber box limits under a potential Doha Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The current support …

We analyze the trade and welfare impact of quarantine measures imposed by Australiaon imports of pigmeat. In particular … strong effect on trade and welfare with a tariff equivalent above 113% of average real worldprices over the period analyzed.[...] …

This paper provides a systematic welfare-based approach to analyze the impact of non-tariffmeasures (NTMs) on trade and … phytosanitary regulations.The approach overcomes the shortcomings of the mainstream approach based on the analysisof forgone trade … caused by trade costs. The latter ignores market imperfections: welfareincreases when NTMs are removed and trade expands. We …

We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …