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 …

This chapter presents a novel political economy mechanism–what might be called the
spaghetti bowls as building blocs mechanism and used to argue that systematic political …

This paper considers the heterogenous trade effects of restrictive Sanitary and Phyto-
Sanitary (SPS) measures on exporters of different sizes, and the channels via which …

This paper tests the hypothesis that the domino-like spread of regionalism is partly driven by
'defensive'FTAs, ie FTAs signed to reduce discrimination created by third-nation FTAs. A …

To quantify trade frictions, we examine multiproduct exporters. We build a flexible general-
equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination …

While much of the focus of the economic literature has been on the role of public food safety
and quality standards both as policy instruments and as non-tariff barriers to trade, it is …

We derive a micro-founded measure of bilateral trade integration that is consistent with a
broad range of leading gravity models. This measure accounts for cross-industry …

Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and blessed
by multilateral trade rules. Using a constructed panel data that identifies the different types of …

Standards have played an important role in food trade for a very long time. Their rapid
growth in recent years has triggered vigorous debates on their impacts on international trade …

Publisher's description: Developing countries are increasingly confronted with the need to
address trade policy related issues in international agreements, most prominently the World …