The Effect of Product Standards on Agricultural Exports

We introduce a standards restrictiveness index to analyze the impact that food safety standards have on international exports of agricultural products. Our new measure of standards restrictiveness is created using maximum residue levels of pesticides for 61 importing countries and 66 different produ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ferro, Esteban, Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20720