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,...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2001.
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...
Thesis research directed by Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
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...
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...
Balancing risk reduction and benefits from trade in setting standards
Wilson, John, Otsuki, Tsunehiro
"Growing concern over health risks associated with food products has prompted close examination of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards in industrialized countries. Standards are employed to...
Balancing food safety and risk: do drug residue limits affect international trade in beef?
John Wilson, Tsunehiro Otsuki, Baishali Majumdsar
There have been a number of high profile food safety disputes in trade over the past decade. These include the widely publicized case at the World Trade Organization between the US and EU over...
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...
The implication of property rights for joint agriculture timber productivity in the Brazilian Amazon
Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Hardie, Ian W., Reis, Eust Quio J.
This paper examines the effects of the Brazilian governments title granting policies on the efficiency of agricultural and timber production in the Brazilian Amazon. A two-stage procedure is used...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE IMPLICATION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR JOINT AGRICULTURE-TIMBER PRODUCTIVITY IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Reis, Eustaquio
This paper examines whether better property rights will increase joint productivity of agricultural and timber products in the Brazilian Amazon. Farrell output-based technical efficiency and...
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...
THE ROLE OF PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES IN THE AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS
Roberts, Donna, Unnevehr, Laurian, Caswell, Julie, Sheldon, Ian, Wilson, John, Otsuki, Tsunehiro, ...
Marketing, International Relations/Trade,
Standards and export decisions: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, John Wilson, Tsunehiro Otsuki
Standards and technical regulations set in importing countries have become a rising concern to exporters, especially to those in developing countries. This paper examines the importance of various...
Systematized and Path-independent Measurement of Biased Technical Change
The sample-specificity and path-dependence of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based technical change index as a component of Malmquist indexes prevent us from obtaining overall and systematic...