Tuesday, July 10, 2012

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 11, no. 3, July 2012) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium Issue: Standards and Non-Tariff Barriers in Trade
    • Thomas Heckelei & Johan Swinnen, Introduction to the Special Issue of the World Trade Review on ‘standards and non-tariff barriers in trade’
    • John Beghin, Anne-Célia Disdier, Stéphan Marette, & Frank van Tongeren, Welfare costs and benefits of non-tariff measures in trade: a conceptual framework and application
    • Ian Sheldon, North–South trade and standards: what can general equilibrium analysis tell us?
    • Johan Swinnen & Thijs Vandemoortele, Trade and the political economy of standards
    • Natalie Chen & Dennis Novy, On the measurement of trade costs: direct vs. indirect approaches to quantifying standards and technical regulations
    • Mauro Vigani, Valentina Raimondi, & Alessandro Olper, International trade and endogenous standards: the case of GMO regulations
    • Marie-Agnès Jouanjean, Standards, reputation, and trade: evidence from US horticultural import refusals
    • Roy Santana & Lee Ann Jackson, Identifying non-tariff barriers: evolution of multilateral instruments and evidence from the disputes (1948−2011)
    • Jan Wouters & Dylan Geraets, Private food standards and the World Trade Organization: some legal considerations
    • Melise Jaud & Olivier Cadot, A second look at the pesticides initiative program: evidence from Senegal
    • Asel Mangelsdorf, Alberto Portugal-Perez, & John S. Wilson, Food standards and exports: evidence for China
    • Edwin Vermulst & Brian Gatta, Concurrent trade defense investigations in the EU, the EU's new anti-subsidy practice against China, and the future of both