Linear groups with many two-generator soluble subgroups (2009)
Let G be a linear group of degree n over a field and let S be any generating set. It is proved that (a) if every pair of products of at most elements of S ∪ S− 1 generates a soluble group then...
Help or Hindrance? The Impact of Harmonised Standards on African Exports (2009)
Czubala, Witold, Shepherd, Ben, Wilson, John S.
We test the hypothesis that product standards harmonised to de facto international standards are less trade restrictive than ones that are not. To do this, we construct a new database of European...
The probability of generating a nilpotent subgroup of a finite group (2008)
It is proved that for finite groups G the probability that two randomly chosen elements of G generate a nilpotent subgroup tends to 0 as the index of the Fitting subgroup of G tends to infinity.
Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade? (2007)
John S. Wilson, Tsunehiro Otsuki B, Mirvat Sewadeh C
Non-Technical Abstract: How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the Doha Ministerial of the World Trade Organization in November...
The World Bank and CEPR (2007)
Bernard Hoekman, Ataman Aksoy, Jagdish Bhagwati, Richard Blackhurst, John Cuddy, Uri Dadush, ...
Despite recurring rounds of trade liberalization under GATT/WTO auspices, complemented by unilateral reforms, many developing countries have not been able to integrate into the world economy. This...
The probability of generating a soluble subgroup of a finite group (2007)
It is proved that for finite groups G, the probability that two randomly chosen elements of G generate a soluble subgroup tends to zero as the index of the largest soluble normal subgroup of G tends...
Master's project (M.S. in Educational Administration)--Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2004.
Trade Facilitation and Economic Development: Measuring the Impact,” The World Bank (mimeo (2003)
John S. Wilson, Catherine L. Mann, Tsunehiro Otsuki
of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and...
Trade Facilitation and Economic Development: A New Approach to Quantifying the Impact (2003)
Wilson, John S., Mann, Catherine L., Otsuki, Tsunehiro
This article analyzes the relationship between trade facilitation and trade flows in the Asia-Pacific region. Country-specific data for port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory environment,...
Keith E. Maskus, John S. Wilson, Tsunehiro Otsuki
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the policy debate and methodological issues surrounding product standards and technical barriers to trade. There has been a rising use of technical...
Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S., Sewadeh, Mirvat
The effects of varying regulatory standards on trade in agricultural products are at the forefront of policy debate. This paper employs a gravity model to estimate the impact of changes in aflatoxin...
The New Trade Agenda: Technology, Standards, and Technical Barriers (1996)
Wilson, John S. (John Sullivan)
SAIS Review - Volume 16, Number 1, Winter-Spring 1996
Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Minnesota.
A race to the top? A case study of food safety standards and African exports
Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S., Sewadeh, Mirvat
Growing concern over health risks associated with food products is at the forefront of trade policy debate. At the heart of this debate is the"precautionary principle,"which holds that precautions...
Trade Facilitation and Economic Development: A New Approach to Quantifying the Impact
John S. Wilson, Catherine L. Mann, Tsunehiro Otsuki
This article analyzes the relationship between trade facilitation and trade flows in the Asia-Pacific region. Country-specific data for port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory environment,...
Global trade and food safety - winners and losers in a fragmented system
Wilson, John S., Otsuki, Tsunehiro
Food safety standards, and the tradeoff between these standards, and agricultural export growth, are at the forefront of the trade policy debate. How food safety is addressed in the world trade...
Addison, William R., Walters, Kathie-Anne, Wong, Winnie W. S., Wilson, John S., Madej, Danuta, Jewell, Lawrence D., ...
Covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is a crucial intermediate in the replication of hepadnaviruses. We inhibited the replication of duck hepatitis B virus in congenitally infected ducks with a...
Trade policy, standards, and development in Central America
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde, Kotschwar, Barbara, Wilson,John S.
After reviewing the current state of standards and trade in Central America, the authors suggest top priorities for reform from a trade policy perspective in a new and increasingly important area of...
Addison, William R., Walters, Kathie-Anne, Wong, Winnie W. S., Wilson, John S., Madej, Danuta, Jewell, Lawrence D., ...
Covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is a crucial intermediate in the replication of hepadnaviruses. We inhibited the replication of duck hepatitis B virus in congenitally infected ducks with a...
Historical development of the audio news service.
Thesis (M.A.)--Pennsylvania State University.
Quantifying the impact of technical barriers to trade : a framework for analysis
Maskus, Keith E., Wilson, John S., Tsunehiro Otsuki
There has been increasing use of technical regulations as instruments of commercial policy in the context of multilateral, regional, and global trade. These nontariff barriers are of special concern...
Liberalizing trade in agriculture : developing countries in Asia and the post-Doha agenda
The author provides an overview and data relevant to the interests of developing countries as they engage in continuing agricultural trade negotiations set forth in the World Trade Organization...
To spray or not to spray? - pesticides, banana exports, and food safety
Wilson, John S., Tsunehiro Otsuki
How governments regulate food safety and environmental protection, including pesticide residue levels, has important implications for trade. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial held in...
Dirty exports and environmental regulation : do standards matter to trade?
Wilson, John S., Tsunehiro Otsuki, Sewadeh, Mirvat
How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers...
Trade facilitation and economic development : measuring the impact
Wilson,John S., Mann, Catherine L., Otsuki, Tsunehiro
The authors analyze the relationship between trade facilitation, trade flows, and GDP per capita in the Asia-Pacific region for the goods sector. They define and measure trade facilitation using four...
Assessing the potential benefit of trade facilitation : A global perspective
Wilson, John S., Mann, Catherine L., Otsuki, Tsunehiro
The relationships between trade facilitation, trade flows, and capacity building are complex and challenging to assess, both empirically and in implementation. The authors measure and estimate the...
Maskus, Keith E., Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S.
Standards and technical regulations exist to protect consumer safety or to achieve other goals, such as ensuring the interoperability of telecommunications systems, for example. Standards and...
Do standards matter for export success ?
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang, Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S.
Standards and technical regulations are an increasingly prominent part of the international trade policy debate. In particular, there has been considerable discussion of whether standards and...
Entering the Union : European accession and capacity-building priorities
Wilson, John S., Luo, Xubei, Broadman, Harry G.
The authors examine the impact of trade facilitation on bilateral trade flows. They examine trade facilitation and capacity-building priorities in 12 countries in the Europe and Central Asia...
The data chase : what's out there on trade costs and nontariff barriers ?
Bagai, Shweta, Wilson, John S.
Trade costs and nontariff barriers are at the forefront of discussions on competitiveness and expanding trade opportunities for developing countries. This paper provides a summary overview of data...
Moving forward faster : trade facilitation reform and Mexican competitiveness
Soloaga, Isidro, Wilson, John S., Mejia, Alejandro
Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over the past decade. The authors evaluate the impact of changes in trade facilitation...
Implementing a WTO agreement on trade facilitation : what makes sense ?
Finger, J. Michael, Wilson, John S.
Contrary to the prevailing view that the Doha negotiations have achieved little, the authors find that on trade facilitation much progress has been made. This is particularly true in regard to action...
Road infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia : does network quality affect trade ?
Shepherd, Ben, Wilson, John S.
The authors present a new database of minimum distance road routes connecting 138 cities in 27 countries across Europe and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is...
Assessing the Benefits of Trade Facilitation: A Global Perspective
John S. Wilson, Catherine L. Mann, Tsunehiro Otsuki
This paper estimates the relationship between trade facilitation and trade flows using a panel of disaggregated manufactured goods for the 2000-2001 period for 75 countries. Four categories of trade...
Help or hindrance ? the impact of harmonized standards on african exports
Czubala, Witold, Shepherd, Ben, Wilson, John S.
The authors test the hypothesis that product standards harmonized to de facto international standards are less trade restrictive than ones that are not. To do this, the authors construct a new...
Transparency, trade costs, and regional integration in the Asia Pacific
Helble, Matthias, Shepherd, Ben, Wilson, John S.
The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our...
Regional integration in South Asia : what role for trade facilitation ?
Wilson, John S., Otsuki, Tsunehiro
The trade performance of countries in South Asia over the past two decades has been poor relative to other regions. Exports from South Asia have doubled over the past 20 years to approximately USD...
Trade costs in Africa : barriers and opportunities for reform
Portugal-Perez, Alberto, Wilson, John S.
This paper reviews data and research on trade costs for Sub-Saharan African countries. It focuses on: border-related costs, transport costs, costs related to behind-the border issues, and the costs...
Trade facilitation in ASEAN member countries : measuring progress and assessing priorities
Shepherd , Ben, Wilson, John S.
This paper reviews recent progress and indicators of trade facilitation in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The findings show that import and export costs vary...
Governance, corruption, and trade in the Asia Pacific region
Abe, Kazutomo, Wilson, John S.
This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation region. The authors find, based on a computable general...
BALANCING FOOD SAFETY AND RISK: DO DRUG RESIDUE LIMITS AFFECT INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN BEEF?
Wilson, John S., Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Majumdar, Baishali
There have been a number of high profile food safety disputes in trade over the past decade. These include the widely publicized dispute at the World Trade Organization between the U.S. and EU over...
FOOD SAFETY REGULATIONS AND GLOBAL FOOD TRADE PATTERNS
Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S.
This study assesses the impact of adopting international food safety standards and regional harmonization of standards on global trade patterns of cereals, dried fruits and nuts. The paper develops...
ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND DIRTY EXPORTS: A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF 24 COUNTRIES
Wilson, John S., Sewadeh, Mirvat, Otsuki, Tsunehiro
This paper examines how the stringency of environmental regulations impact international trade patterns. It explores the hypothesis that environmental regulation does not have a significant impact on...
Weathering the storm : investing in port infrastructure to lower trade costs in East Asia
Abe, Kazutomo, Wilson, John S.
The world economic crisis of 2008 presents clear challenges to prospects for economic growth in developing countries. This is particularly true for emerging economies in East Asia that have relied to...
Beyond the information technology agreement : harmonization of standards and trade in electronics
Portugal-Perez, Alberto, Reyes, Jose-Daniel, Wilson, John S.
Product standards can have a dual impact on production and trade costs. Standards may impose additional costs on exporters as it may be necessary to adapt products for specific markets (cost-effect)....
Transparency and Regional Integration in the Asia Pacific
Matthias Helble, Ben Shepherd, John S. Wilson
Abstract We show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalisation of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our...
Why trade facilitation matters to Africa
PORTUGAL-PEREZ, ALBERTO, WILSON, JOHN S.
Mitigating the impact of the economic crisis will require using all the tools necessary to regain a sustainable path to growth. This includes measures to support trade expansion, including in...
Trade Facilitation and Expanding the Benefits of Trade: Evidence from Firm Leval Data
Existing empirical studies on trade costs and trade facilitation largely focus on aggregate impacts of reform due to data availability. We take a step toward filling in this gap in literature. Using...
Trade facilitation in ASEAN member countries: Measuring progress and assessing priorities
Shepherd, Ben, Wilson, John S.
This paper reviews progress and indicators of trade facilitation in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The findings show that import and export costs vary considerably in...
Helble, Matthias, Mann, Catherine, Wilson, John S.
Does foreign aid spent on trade facilitation increase trade flows of developing countries? There is an on-going and high profile discussion of aid-for-trade associated with the Doha negotiations of...
Time as a determinant of comparative advantage
It is assumed that added time to export adds cost to and lowers the volume of trade. Time delays may also affect the composition of trade and can disproportionately reduce trade in time-sensitive...