This paper investigates the relationship between the diffusion of EU standards and product quality upgrading using … standards boosts the rate of quality upgrading. However the results are heterogeneous when moving from primary to processed … foods, and from ISO to non-ISO standards. …

This paper develops a two-country model of international trade in which citizens who are heterogeneous with respect to … income and trade taxes in a unified international-trade framework, we uncover the interplay between majority voting over … these two instruments at the domestic level and strategic interdependencies between countries' trade policies. Our main …

for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …

increased volatility in its terms of trade, openness confers diversification benefits. In this note, we argue that export …

Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should … social benefit and producer protection. Inefficiency and distributional effects are consistent with producerprotecting trade …

producers, divergent product standards have been categorized as a major obstacle to international trade. This paper quantifies … harmonization events at the document level. Our results show that the introduction of harmonized standards increases trade through a …Product standards are omnipresent in industrialized societies. Though standardization can be beneficial for domestic …

Cross-sector development partnerships (CSDPs) are project-based collaborative arrangements between business, government …, and civil society organizations in support of international development goals such as sustainability, health education …, and economic development. Based on the case of public private partnerships in development cooperation, we examine the …

sustainability transitions within a transnational sector. Our case is the global coffee sector where ‘sustainability standards' are …