-country policy modeling. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation overstates India's real …"Most empirical policy work requires the aggregation of policies. Trade policy aggregation exemplifies the aggregation … problem poignantly, with thousands of highly dispersed trade barriers. This paper provides methods of policy aggregation that …

-country policy modeling. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation overstates India's real …Most empirical policy work requires the aggregation of policies. Trade policy aggregation exemplifies the aggregation … problem poignantly, with thousands of highly dispersed trade barriers. This paper provides methods of policy aggregation that …