Product Standards Coalitions in a Market Without Borders
Product Standards Coalitions in a Market Without Borders

Author: Alessandra Casella

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Traditional analyses of standards in international trade identify standards as government regulations and investigate the potential for distortion of trade flows. In reality, however, private industry groups exercise critical influence on the determination of technical standards. The composition of these groups is affected by technology and market conditions, and in an integrated market the alliances of private firms are likely to cross national boundaries, generating harmonization bottom. across economic activities and across countries, economic integration should bring increased harmonization across countries and finer differentiation across products. Empirical evidence from the United States and the European Union, although mostly anecdotical, supports this prediction.

Coalitions Across Borders
Coalitions Across Borders

Author: Joe Bandy

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780742523975

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'Coalitions Across Borders' examines aspects of transnational movements that mobilise in protest against the inequities of the neo-liberal international order.

Product Market Integration
Product Market Integration

Author: Helena Maria Guimaraes

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2010-08-18

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1849509867

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Addresses the issue of product market integration within the European Union (EU) from a multidisciplinary approach that ranges from economics to political science and sociology. This book assesses the functioning of the EU Internal Market and evaluates the need for differentiated integration in an enlarged and heterogeneous EU.

The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade
The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade

Author: Spencer Henson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 568

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This authoritative volume brings together for the first time the foremost research and commentary on technical barriers to trade. It explores the major theoretical issues associated with analysis of the impact of technical measures on trade in goods and the challenges associated with attempts to quantify impacts on trade flows. Previous empirical analyses of the impact of technical barriers on trade in goods in general are then presented. This is followed by in-depth coverage of the trade effects of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, an area where analysis is particularly challenging. Finally, the volume concludes by exploring institutional efforts to overcome the impact of technical barriers, including harmonization of standards and the role of the WTO. The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade will be an invaluable source of reference for academics, students and policymakers alike.

New Techniques to Extract Market Expectations from Financial Instruments
New Techniques to Extract Market Expectations from Financial Instruments

Author: Paul Söderlind

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 64

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This paper is a selective survey of new or recent methods to extract information about market expectations from asset prices for monetary policy purposes. Traditionally, interest rates and forward exchange rates have been used to extract expected means of future interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. More recently, these methods have been refined to rely on implied forward interest rates, so as to extract expected future time-paths. Very recently only the means but the whole (risk neutral) probability distribution from a set of option prices.