Faber, Gerrit and Roelfsema, Hein. (2001) "Trade, standards, and regional integration". In: UNSPECIFIED, Madison, Wisconsin. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
In this paper we argue that countries have strong incentives to harmonize policies more quickly in regional agreements than they do in a multilateral setting. The set up of this paper is as follows. First, in section 2 we discuss the role of standards in international trade negotiations in the GATT/WTO. Section 3 reviews the way the EC has achieved a high degree of harmonization of standards. In section 4 we discuss economic theories that indicate under which circumstances countries will be able to improve their social welfare by concluding a Standardization Union. Subsequently, we introduce the role of various political actors by introducing theories of regulatory blocs like the EU are the subject of section 5. Conclusions of the paper are presented in section 6.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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Subjects for non-EU documents: | Other international institutions > GATT/WTO EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > Single Market > harmonisation/standards/mutual recognition EU policies and themes > External relations > regionalism, international EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > welfare state EU policies and themes > External relations > international trade |
Subjects for EU documents: | UNSPECIFIED |
EU Series and Periodicals: | UNSPECIFIED |
EU Annual Reports: | UNSPECIFIED |
Conference: | European Union Studies Association (EUSA) > Biennial Conference > 2001 (7th), May 31-June 2, 2001 |
Depositing User: | Phil Wilkin |
Official EU Document: | No |
Language: | English |
Date Deposited: | 03 May 2006 |
Page Range: | p. 27 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2011 17:21 |
URI: | http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2082 |
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