TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ganslandt,Mattias
AU  - Markusen,James R.
TI  - Standards and Related Regulations in International Trade: A Modeling Approach
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8346
PY  - 2001
Y2  - June 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8346
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8346.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Mattias Ganslandt
University of Colorado
E-Mail: mattias.ganslandt@colorado.edu

James R. Markusen
Department of Economics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0256
Tel: 303/492-0748
Fax: 303/492-8960
E-Mail: james.markusen@colorado.edu
AB  - Standards and technical regulations which govern the admissibility of imported goods into an economy raise costs of exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries.  Yet standards may also have a positive side, such as certifying product quality and safety for the consumer.  This paper suggests approaches to modeling standards and technical regulations, with a particular concern that these approaches are at least potentially implementable in an applied general-equilibrium model with real data.
ER  -