Li, Yuan; Beghin, John C. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
We propose aggregation indices of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) to quantify their protectionism relative to international … NTM literature, one concerned with the aggregation of various NTMs into operational indices for econometric and modeling … purposes, and the other attempting to evaluate the protectionism of NTMs. The data used in the application come from a large …