The material contained herein is supplementary to the Article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.

This paper proposes studying export frequency of firms. While extensive margins of products and destination define the scope of firm's export, export shipment frequency is determined by sale method choice and cost structure of the trade technology. Exporters optimize the frequency of...

Recent years have seen a surge in economic integration agreements (EIAs) and the development of non-tariff measures (NTMs). As a consequence, a growing number of EIAs include provisions on NTMs. However, little attention has been given in the literature to the effects of NTM liberalization in...

In May 2003, the United States, Canada and Argentina launched a World Trade Organization (WTO) case against the European Union concerning its authorization regime for biotech products. In November 2006, the WTO condemned this regime. Using a gravity equation, we estimate the reduction of exports...

MAcMaps est une mesure bilaterale et desagregee de l'acces au marche qui a ete construite pour integrer les instruments majeurs de protection (droits ad valorem et specifiques, droits anti-dumping, prohibitions, quotas tarifaires, normes) au niveau le plus detaille (SH 10) et en tenant compte de...

This article intends to present a very detailed analysis of the trade-related aspects of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations. We use a dynamic partial equilibrium model – focusing on the demand side – at the HS6 level (covering 5,113 HS6 products). Two alternative lists of...

We identify in this Paper the level of trade integration between the three largest economic powers of the world, often called the Triad: The United States, the EU and Japan. We focus on measuring possible asymmetries in market access between members of the Triad using border effects between each...

La prise en compte de l'environnement et des risques specifiques de nature biologique ou informationnelle qui y sont associes justifie la mise en place de mesures aux frontieres. Mais l'utilisation protectionniste de telles mesures est probable. En particulier, dans l'agriculture,...