Observation of wave turbulence in vibrating plates (2008)
Boudaoud, Arezki, Cadot, Olivier, Odille, Benoît, Touzé, Cyril
The nonlinear interaction of waves in a driven medium may lead to wave turbulence, a state such that energy is transferred from large to small lengthscales. Here, wave turbulence is observed in...
Statistics of power injection in a plate set into chaotic vibration (2008)
Cadot, Olivier, Boudaoud, Arezki, Touzé, Cyril
A vibrating plate is set into a chaotic state of wave turbulence by either a periodic or a random local forcing. Correlations between the forcing and the local velocity response of the plate at the...
Statistics of power injection in a plate set into chaotic vibration (2008)
Cadot, Olivier, Boudaoud, Arezki, Touzé, Cyril
A vibrating plate is set into a chaotic state of wave turbulence by either a periodic or a random local forcing. Correlations between the forcing and the local velocity response of the plate at the...
Observation of wave turbulence in vibrating plates (2008)
Boudaoud, Arezki, Cadot, Olivier, Odille, Benoît, Touzé, Cyril
The nonlinear interaction of waves in a driven medium may lead to wave turbulence, a state such that energy is transferred from large to small lengthscales. Here, wave turbulence is observed in...
Statistics of power injection in a plate set into chaotic vibration (2008)
Cadot, Olivier, Boudaoud, Arezki, Touzé, Cyril
A vibrating plate is set into a chaotic state of wave turbulence by either a periodic or a random local forcing. Correlations between the forcing and the local velocity response of the plate at the...
Observation of wave turbulence in vibrating plates (2008)
Boudaoud, Arezki, Cadot, Olivier, Odille, Benoît, Touzé, Cyril
The nonlinear interaction of waves in a driven medium may lead to wave turbulence, a state such that energy is transferred from large to small lengthscales. Here, wave turbulence is observed in...
Why OECD Countries Should Reform Rules of Origin (2008)
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime
With preferential trade agreements on the rise worldwide rules of origin—which are necessary to prevent trade deflection—are attracting increasing attention. At the same time, preference erosion...
Anti-Dumping Sunset Reviews: The Uneven Reach of WTO Disciplines * (2007)
Olivier Cadot, Jaime De Melo, Bolormaa Tumurchudur
The paper makes uses of a new database on Anti-Dumping measures worldwide to assess whether the 1995 Uruguay Round Agreement on AD sunset reviews had any effect. Prima facie, the duration of AD...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help? (2006)
Anson, Jose, Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help? (2006)
Anson, Jose, Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help? (2006)
Anson, Jose, Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help? (2006)
Anson, Jose, Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
Carrere, Céline, Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Tumurchudur, Bolormaa
Building on earlier work by Estevadeordal (2000), we construct a synthetic index (R-index) intending to capture the restrictiveness of rules of origin in preferential trading agreements. The R-index...
Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under NAFTA (2005)
Carrere, Céline, Cadot, Olivier, Melo De, Jaime, Portugal-Perez, Alberto
The effective market access granted to textiles and apparel under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is estimated, taking into account the presence of rules of origin. First, estimates...
Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under NAFTA (2005)
Cadot, Olivier, Carrère, Céline, De Melo, Jaime, Portugal-Pérez, Alberto
The effective market access granted to textiles and apparel under the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) is estimated, taking into account the presence of rules of origin. First, estimates...
Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under NAFTA (2005)
Cadot, Olivier, Carrère, Céline, Melo, Jaime De, Portugal-Pérez, Alberto
The effective market access granted to textiles and apparel under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is estimated, taking into account the presence of rules of origin. First, estimates...
Lobbying, Counterlobbying, and the Structure of Tariff Protection in Poor and Rich Countries (2004)
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
A political economy model of protection is used to determine endogenously the intersectoral patterns of protection. Three propositions are derived that are consistent with the stylized patterns of...
Cadot, Olivier, Webber, Douglas
The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the...
Cadot, Olivier, Webber, Douglas
The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the...
Cadot, Olivier, Webber, Douglas
The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the...
Cadot, Olivier, Webber, Douglas
The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the...
CADOT, Olivier, WEBBER, Douglas
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/01_03.pdf
CADOT, Olivier, WEBBER, Douglas
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/01_03.pdf
CADOT, Olivier, WEBBER, Douglas
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/01_03.pdf
Innovation Under the Threat of Stricter Environmental Standards (1995)
Cadot, Olivier, Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard
Ce document considère la menace d'une réglementation environnementale plus stricte en tant qu'instrument de politique économique visant à stimuler l'innovation. Il est démontré que, dans...
Innovation Under the Threat of Stricter Environmental Standards (1995)
Cadot, Olivier, Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard
Ce document considère la menace d'une réglementation environnementale plus stricte en tant qu'instrument de politique économique visant à stimuler l'innovation. Il est démontré que, dans...
Three essays in the economics of disinformation / (1991)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1991.
L'inflation en France, 1914-1920 / (1983)
Cadot, Olivier (Olivier Emmanuel)
Written for the Dept. of Economics.
How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA
Cadot, Olivier, Carrère, Céline, De Melo, Jaime, Portugal-Pérez, Alberto
This paper estimates the effective market access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel by combining two approaches. First, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences and rules of origin on...
Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? : The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment
Olivier Cadot, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Andreas Stephan
This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy...
Lobbying, Counterlobbying, and the Structure of Tariff Protection in Poor and Rich Countries
Olivier Cadot, Jaime De Melo, Marcelo Olarreaga
A political economy model of protection is used to determine endogenously the intersectoral patterns of protection. Three propositions are derived that are consistent with the stylized patterns of...
Can duty-drawbacks have a protectionist bias? Evidence from MERCOSUR
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Duty drawback (or rebate) systems, reduce or eliminate the duties paid on imported intermediate goods, or raw materials used in the production of exports. When a firm imports an intermediate product...
How Costly is it for Poor Farmers to Lift Themselves out of Subsistence?
Cadot, Olivier, Dutoit, Laure, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The main objective of this paper is to provide estimates of the cost of moving out of subsistence for Madagascar's farmers. The analysis is based on a simple asset-return model of occupational...
How Costly is it for Poor Farmers to Lift Themselves out of Subsistence?
Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit, Marcelo Olarreaga
The main objective of this paper is to provide estimates of the cost of moving out of subsistence for Madagascar's farmers. The analysis is based on a simple asset-return model of occupational...
Regional Integration and Lobbying for Tariffs against Nonmembers.
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarraga, Marcelo
We study the impact of regional trading arrangements (RIAs) on tariff policy toward nonmembers in a three-good, three-country political economy model. Comparing free-trade areas (FTAs) with and...
Par-delà le "Röstigraben": l'électorat suisse partagé face à l'UE
This paper analyses the EEA and bilateral agreements vote results at the 3025 community level of the Swiss Confederation by simultaneously modelling the vote and the participation decisions....
Market Access and Welfare under Free Trade Agreements: Textiles under
Olivier Cadot, Céline Carrère, Jaime De Melo, Alberto Portugal-Pérez
The effective market access granted to textiles and apparel under the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) is estimated, taking into account the presence of rules of origin. First, estimates...
Rules of Origin for Preferential Trading Arrangements: Implications for AFTA of EU and US Regimes
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Portugal-Pérez, Alberto
With FTAs under negotiation between Japan and AFTA members and between Korea and AFTA members, preferential market access will become more important in Asian regionalism. Protectionist pressures will...
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Portugal-Perez, Alberto
With free trade areas (FTAs) undernegotiation between Japan and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) members and between the Republic of Korea and AFTA members, preferential market access will become...
The elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, ten years on
Cadot, Olivier, Dutoit, Laure, De Melo, Jaime
This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing...
Why OECD Countries should Reform Rules of Origin
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime
With preferential trading Agreements (PTAs) on the rise worldwide with multiple memberships, rules of origin-- which are necessary to prevent trade deflection --are attracting increasing attention....
Banana Splits and Banana Slips:The European and Trans-Atlantic Politics of Bananas
GATT; international trade; liberalization; regulation; WTO; Uruguay round
Scared by Foreigners and their Products? Survey Evidence from France
Cadot, Olivier, Geoffard, Pierre-Yves, Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko, Verdier, Thierry
The paper studies attitudes toward immigration and trade using an opinion survey of two thousand French individuals. We find that, beyond usual Stolper-Samuelson effects (skilled individuals are more...
The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years On
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Dutoit, Laure
Commodity prices are usually very slow to recover from adverse shocks. This is one of the reasons why it has proven so difficult either to smooth their effect or to stabilize them, and why it is...
Tariff evasion and customs corruption : does pre-shipment inspection help?
Olivier Cadot, Jose Anson, Marcelo Olarreaga
The authors provide a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
How costly is it for poor farmers to lift themselves out of poverty?
Cadot, Olivier, Dutoit, Laure, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The main objective of this paper is to provide estimates of the cost of moving out of subsistence for Madagascar's farmers. The analysis is based on a simple asset-return model of occupational...
Product-specific rules of origin in EU and US preferential trading arrangements: an assessment
CADOT, OLIVIER, CARRERE, CELINE, DE MELO, JAIME, TUMURCHUDUR, BOLORMAA
Building on earlier work by Estevadeordal (2000), we construct a synthetic index (R-index) intending to capture the restrictiveness of rules of origin in preferential trading agreements. The R-index...
Product Specific Rules of Origin in EU and US Preferential Trading Agreements: An Assessment
Cadot, Olivier, Carrère, Céline, De Melo, Jaime, Tumurchudur, Bolormaa
Building on earlier work by Estevadeordal, we construct a synthetic index (R-index) intending to capture the restrictiveness on market access due to product specific rules of origin (PSRO) that apply...
Anti-Dumping Sunset Reviews: The Uneven Reach of WTO Disciplines
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Tumurchudur, Bolormaa
The paper uses a new database on Anti-Dumping measures worldwide to assess whether the 1995 Uruguay Round Agreement on AD sunset reviews had any effect. Estimates from a count of revocations for a...
Rules of Origin in North-South Preferential Trading Arrangements with an Application to NAFTA
Anson, José, Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Estevadeordal, Antoni, Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko, Tumurchudur, Bolormaa
All preferential trading agreements (PTAs) short of a customs union use Rules of Origin (RoO) to prevent trade deflection. RoO raise production costs and create administrative costs. This Paper...
Rules of Origin in North-South Preferential Trading Arrangements with an Application to NAFTA
José Anson, Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal, Jaime De Melo, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Bolormaa Tumurchudur
All preferential trading agreements (PTAs) short of a customs union use rules of origin (ROO) to prevent trade deflection. ROO raise production costs and create administrative costs. This paper...
Harmonizing External Quotas in an FTA: A Step Backward?
Olivier Cadot, Jaime De Melo, Marcelo Olarreaga
This paper explores how political-economy forces shape quantitative barriers against the rest of the world in an FTA. We show that whereas the dilution of lobbying power in an FTA typically leads to...
Export Diversification: What’s behind the Hump?
Cadot, Olivier, Carrère, Céline, Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 159 countries over 17 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation...
Trade-related issues in the regulation of genetically modified organisms
Olivier Cadot, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Daniel Traça
This paper examines some of the trade-related aspects of the transatlantic conflict over agricultural biotechnology regulation. We first review the notion of 'regulatory protectionism' and the...
Assessing the effect of NAFTA's rules of origin
Olivier Cadot, Jaime De Melo, Antoni Estevadeordal, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Bolormaa Tumurchudur
Rules of origin as export subsidies
Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
NAFTA, rules of origin, regional integration
Rules of origin in north-south preferential trading arrangements with an application to NAFTA
Jose Anson, Olivier Cadot, Antoni Estevadeordal, Jaime De Melo, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Bolorma Tumurchudur
rules of origin, FTA, NAFTA
The Europe Agreements and EC-LDC Relations
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime
The paper considers the implications of recent changes in the EC relationship with the Central & Eastern European Countries (CEECs) for the EC's traditional links with ACP countries. After reviewing...
France and the CEECs: Adjusting to Another Enlargement
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime
The paper considers the effects of trade expansion between the EU and the Central and East European Countries (CEECs) on France. Taking a political-economy perspective, we attempt to detect potential...
Regional Integration and Lobbying for Tariffs Against Non-members
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Using an extension of the influence-driven lobbying approach developed by Grossman and Helpman, we study the impact of regional integration arrangements (RIAs) on trade policy towards non-members in...
Lobbying and the Structure of Protection
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This paper extends the influence-driven model of trade policy determination to include general equilibrium effects on the supply side resulting from labour-market interaction and intermediate goods....
Can Bilateralism Ease the Pains of Multilateral Trade Liberalization?
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Using the influence-driven approach to endogenous trade-policy determination, we show how a free-trade agreement (FTA) with rules of origin can work as a device to compensate losers from trade...
Harmonizing External Quotas in a FTA: A Step Backward?
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This paper explores how political-economy forces shape quantitative barriers against the rest of the world in a FTA. We show that whereas the dilution of lobbying power in a FTA typically leads to a...
Asymmetric Regionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Where Do We Stand?
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The paper reviews the likely economic effects of the Regional Economic Partnership Agreements (REPAs) proposed by the EU to the ACP countries to succeed to the Lomé IV agreements. We argue that, in...
A Political Economy Model of Infrastructure Allocation: An Empirical Assessment
Cadot, Olivier, Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Stephan, Andreas
This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy...
The Protectionist Bias of Duty Drawbacks and the New Regionalism
Cadot, Olivier, De Melo, Jaime, Olarreaga, Marcelo
In a political-economy setting where tariffs and duty drawbacks are endogenously chosen through industry lobbying, it is shown that full duty-drawbacks are granted to exporters who use imported...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does PSI Help?
Anson, José, Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This Paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
India's Trade Policy For Sale: How Much? Who Buys?
Cadot, Olivier, Grether, Jean-Marie, Olarreaga, Marcelo
This Paper proposes a new method to test the Grossman-Helpman model of endogenous protection and lobby formation. This method, which does not require outside data on lobbies or contributions,...
Rules of Origin as Export Subsidies
Cadot, Olivier, Estevadeordal, Antoni, Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko
The paper estimates the effect of NAFTA’s rules of origin (ROO) on Mexican access to the US market treating explicitly the endogenous determination of ROOs. The first equation determines Mexico’s...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help?
Jose Anson, Olivier Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga
This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the...
Lobbying and the Structure of Protection.
This paper extends the influence- driven model of trade policy determination to include general equilibrium effects on the supply side resulting from labourmarket interaction and intermediate goods....
Product Specific Rules of Origin in EU and US Preferential Trading Arrangements: An Assessment
Ca©line CARRERE, Jaime MELO DE, Olivier CADOT, Bolormaa Tumurchudur
Building on earlier work by Estevadeordal, we construct a synthetic index (R-index)intending to capture the restrictiveness on market access due to product specific rules of origin (PSRO)that apply...
How Much Market Access in FTAs? Textiles Under NAFTA
Olivier CADOT, Ca©line CARRERE, Jaime MELO DE, Alberto PORTUGAL-PEREZ
This paper estimates the effective market-access granted under NAFTA in textiles and apparel by combining two approaches. First, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences and rules of origin on...
Can Bilateralism Ease the Pains of Trade Liberalisation ?
Using the influence-driven approach to endogenous trade-policy determination, we show how a free-trade agreement (FTA) with rules of origin can work as a device to compensate losers from trade...
Export Diversification:What’s behind the Hump?
Ca©line CARRERE, Olivier CADOT, Vanessa STRAUSS-KHAN
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 159 countries over 17 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation...
Career Concerns and the Acquisition of Firm-Specific Skills
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Olivier Cadot
This paper studies compensation schemes that can motivate a worker to acquire nonverifiable firm-specific skills, when the acquisition process is also one of learning about managerial talent. At the...
A Political Economy Model of Infrastructure Allocation: An Empirical Assessment
Olivier Cadot, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Andreas Stephan
This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy...
Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel? The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment
Olivier Cadot, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Andreas Stephan
This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy...
Innovation Under the Threat of Stricter Environmental Standards
Olivier Cadot, Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
This paper considers the threat of stricter regulation as a policy instrument to enhance innovation into cleaner technology. It is argued that in some contexts the government would find it optimal to...
Olivier Cadot, Calvin Djiofack, Jaime De Melo
The present paper analyses how the design of EU preferences, in particular of their rules of origin, impacts the integration of West Africa into world trade. We show that West Africa’s trade has...
Imports and TFP at the Firm Level: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Augier, Patricia, Cadot, Olivier, Dovis, Marion
This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period...
EU Trade Barriers in the Agri-food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence
Cadot, Olivier, Gallezot, Jacques, Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko
This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors, endogenously generating vested interests in the...
Why OECD Countries Should Reform Rules of Origin
With preferential trade agreements on the rise worldwide rules of origin--which are necessary to prevent trade deflection--are attracting increasing attention. At the same time, preference erosion...
The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, 10 Years on
Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutoit, Jaime De Melo
This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board (VMB) in 1993 affected prices paid to farmers, incentives and indicators of poverty and inequality using household...
OECD Imports: Diversification and quality search
Olivier CADOT, Céline CARRERE, Madina KUKENOVA, Vanessa STRAUSS-KHAN
This paper explores the evolution of OECD imports over time and as a function of income levels, measuring the concentration of those imports across origin countries at the product level. We find...
Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
Cadot, Olivier, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Tschopp, Jeanne
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extend to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's...
Do food scares explain supplier concentration? An analysis of EU agri-food imports
Mélise Jaud, Olivier Cadot, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that...
Olivier Cadot, Calvin Djiofack, Jaime De Melo
This paper analyzes the likely impact of European preferences, in particular of its Rules of Origin (RoO), on the prospects for integration of West Africa in world trade. We show that West African...
Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports
Cadot, Olivier, Jaud, Mélise, Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko
This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that...
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help?
Jose Anson, Olivier Cadot, Marcelo Olarreaga
This paper provides a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are...
The most intractable and protracted transatlantic trade conflict of the last decade was over bananas, which grow neither on the European nor on the North American continent. Our explanation of the...