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The Cost of Compliance with Product Standards for Firms in Developing Countries : An Econometric Study

Standards and technical regulations exist to protect consumer safety or to achieve other goals, such as ensuring the interoperability of telecommunications systems, for example. Standards and technical regulations can, however, raise substantially both start-up and production costs for firms. Maskus...

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Main Authors: Maskus, Keith E., Otsuki, Tsunehiro, Wilson, John S.
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
BENCHMARK
BILATERAL TRADE
CAPITAL USE
COMPETITIVENESS
COMPLIANCE COSTS
CONSUMERS
COST FUNCTIONS
COST MINIMIZATION
DAMAGES
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DISECONOMIES
DISECONOMIES OF SCALE
ECONOMETRIC MODELS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMIC THEORY
ECONOMICS
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
ELASTICITIES
ELASTICITY
EMISSION STANDARDS
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
EMPIRICAL STUDIES
EMPLOYMENT
EQUATIONS
EQUILIBRIUM
EXPENDITURES
EXPORTS
FACTOR DEMAND
FIXED COSTS
GDP
GDP DEFLATOR
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS
IMPORTS
INFLATION
INPUT PRICES
INPUT USE
INTEREST RATE
INTEREST RATES
INTERMEDIATE INPUTS
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
LABOR COSTS
MARGINAL COST
MARKET FAILURES
MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION
MIDDLE EAST
PERMITS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRODUCERS
PRODUCTION COSTS
PUBLIC POLICY
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
SPILLOVERS
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
TARIFF BARRIERS
TECHNICAL STANDARDS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
THEORETICAL MODELS
TRADE DISPUTES
TRANSACTION COSTS
TRANSPARENCY
VALUE ADDED
VARIABLE COSTS
VARIABLE INPUTS
WAGE RATES
WAGES
Microdata Set
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/05/5800528/cost-compliance-product-standards-firms-developing-countries-econometric-study
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8961

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