No double standards : quantifying the impact of standard harmonization on trade / by Julia Schmidt and Walter Steingress. : FB3-5/2019-36E-PDF

"Product standards are omnipresent in industrialized societies. Though standardization can be beneficial for domestic producers, divergent product standards have been categorized as a major obstacle to international trade. This paper quantifies the effect of standard harmonization on trade flows and characterizes the extent to which it changes the cost and demand structure of exporting. Creating a novel and comprehensive database on cross-country standard equivalences, we identify standard harmonization events at the document level. Our results show that the introduction of harmonized standards increases trade through a larger sales volume of existing exporters (intensive margin) and more entry (extensive margin). These findings are consistent with a multi-country heterogeneous firm model featuring endogenous standard adoption. Because of additional demand, standard harmonization raises firms' incentives to produce varieties in accordance with the standard despite high sunk investment costs. Firms’ export sales expand and entry into foreign markets is encouraged"--Abstract, page ii.

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Ministère/Organisme Bank of Canada.
Titre No double standards : quantifying the impact of standard harmonization on trade / by Julia Schmidt and Walter Steingress.
Variante du titre Quantifying the impact of standard harmonization on trade
Titre de la série Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-36
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) "September 2019."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38).
Includes abstracts in English and French.
Information sur la publication Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019.
©2019
Auteur / Contributeur Schmidt, Julia, author.
Steingress, Walter, author.
Description 1 online resource (iv, 65 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour).
Numéro de catalogue
  • FB3-5/2019-36E-PDF
Descripteurs Standardization
International trade
Models
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