Table of Contents

Obtaining Data on the Incidence of NTMs; The Effects of Services-Type Measures; Trade Facilitation; The Effects of Quota-Type and Standards-Type Measures; Estimating Tariff Equivalents of NTMs Without Simulation; The Effects of Other Policies; Using Estimates of NTM Impacts in Simulations; Methodological Aids.

About the Author

hilippa 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.

Reviews

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