QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF NON-TARIFF MEASURES AND TRADE FACILITATION
edited by Philippa Dee (Australian National University, Australia) & Michael Ferrantino (US International Trade Commission, USA)
Table of Contents (49k)
Chapter 1: Introduction (526k)
Philippa Dee is currently Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Government at Australian National University. There she is pursuing research on the effects of liberalizing barriers to trade in services in a number of developing countries. She was previously Assistant Commissioner at the Australian Productivity Commission. There she worked on a wide range of economic policy issues, from evaluating Australia's greenhouse gas policies, R&D policies and National Competition Policy, to evaluating the effects of multilateral Uruguay and APEC trade liberalization. She also contributed to seminal collaborative research with Australian National University in measuring and evaluating barriers to services trade and their accompanying domestic regulatory regimes. She has held a previous academic position at Australian National University and a research position at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. She was educated at Victoria and Canterbury Universities in New Zealand and at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Michael Ferrantino received his BA from Northwestern University in 1980 and his PhD from Yale University in 1987. After teaching at Drew, Southern Methodist, and Youngstown State Universities, he joined the US International Trade Commission in 1987. His published work focused on empirical topics in international economics, including trade and environment, technological change, the multinational firm, and the relationship between trade and intellectual property.
As tariffs have fallen worldwide, the increasing importance of non-tariff policies for further trade liberalization has become widely recognized. The methods for assessing the potential effects of such liberalization have lagged significantly behind those available for analyzing tariffs. This book is the first volume that comprehensively addresses this gap. It has been designed to be useful for both economists and policymakers, especially for those involved in communicating ideas and results between economists and policymakers.
This indispensable book contains cutting-edge discussions of the full range of methodologies used in this area, including business surveys, summary statistics such as effective rates of protection and price gaps, time-series and panel econometrics, and simulation methods such as computable general equilibrium. It covers the entire spectrum of policies under discussion in current trade negotiations, including trade facilitation, services policies, quantitative measures, customs procedures, standards, movement of natural persons, and anti-dumping.
Some prominent contributors to this book are Bijit Bora (World Trade Organization), John Wilson, Tsunehiro Otsuki and Vlad Manole (World Bank), Catherine Mann (Institute of International Economics), Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern (University of Michigan), Joe Francois (Erasmus University), Dean Spinanger (University of Kiel), Antoni Estevadeordal and Kati Suominen (Inter-American Development Bank), Thomas Prusa (Rutgers University), Thomas Hertel and Terrie Walmsley (Purdue University), Scott Bradford (Brigham Young University), Judith Dean, Robert Feinberg, Soamiely Andriamananjara and Marinos Tsigas (US International Trade Commission).
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