 Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade?Maggie Chen and Aaditya Mattoo Working Papers from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy Abstract: Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and blessed by multilateral trade rules. Using a constructed panel data that identifies the different types of agreements at the industry level, we find that such agreements increase the trade between participating countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world. Harmonization of standards may reduce the exports of excluded countries, especially in markets that have raised the stringency of standards. Mutual Recognition Agreements are more uniformly trade promoting unless they contain restrictive rules of origin, in which case intraregional trade increases at the expense of imports from other countries. Keywords: regionalism; standard; harmonization; MRA; rules of origin (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Canadian Journal of Economics 41(3), August 2008, pp. 838-863 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gwi:wpaper:2009-14 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy Contact information at EDIRC. |
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