Accurately classifying products is essential in international trade. Virtually all countries categorize products into tariff lines using the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature for both statistical and duty collection purposes. In this paper, we apply and assess several different algorithms to...

Which products are potentially produced together? When demand for a product increases, which firms will supply it? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms, we recover a continuous cost-based distance between firms and unproduced products. Higher product distance implies...

Which products are potentially produced together? When demand for a product increases, which firms will supply it? Using multi-product production patterns within and across firms, we recover a continuous cost-based distance between firms and unproduced products. Higher product distance implies...

This dissertation exploits fine-grained trade data to study how the evasion of trade sanctions may be detected, which factors determine the utilisation of free trade agreements, and how to improve the quality of intertemporal product-level trade data.

Accurately classifying products is essential in international trade. Virtually all countries categorize products into tariff lines using the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature for both statistical and duty collection purposes. In this paper, we apply and assess several different algorithms to...

A wide variety of retailers (supermarkets, home electronics, Internet shops, etc.) provide scanner data containing information at the level of the barcode, e.g. the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). As scanner data provide complete transaction information, we may use the expenditure shares of...

Firm-product data provide information for various research questions in international trade or innovation economics. However, working with this data requires harmonizing product classifications consistently over time to avoid internal validity issues. The researcher must consider product code...

This paper aims to analyze topics within the international classification of goods and services (NICE classes) applied for the registration of trademarks at the EUIPO. This is accomplished by introducing a more fine-grained classification of trademarks as a "sub-section" of the rather rough NICE...

Trade classifications are a necessary prerequisite for the compilation of trade statistics, and they should - beyond that - be regarded as valuable base for the definition of shared controlled vocabularies for linked business data that deal with import, export etc. The Standard International...

Los acuerdos comerciales modifican las condiciones de competencia de los sectores transables de una economía, generando ganadores y perdedores. Es más, los efectos de una determinada expansión o contracción de la producción suelen ser muy diferentes según el tipo de producción afectada....

Melanie Buchmüller befasst sich in diesem Buch mit strategischen Optionen zur Verbesserung der Wertschöpfung innerhalb eines Unternehmens, einschließlich des Risiko- und Prozessmanagements sowie der Produktmodularisierung. Die Autorin untersucht die Erfolgsfaktoren und die Prozesse für eine...

In this era of increasing obesity and increasing threats of legislation and regulation of food marketing practices, regulatory agencies have pointedly asked how “low-fat” nutrition claims may influence food consumption. The authors develop and test a framework that contends that low-fat...

This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a, 2012b), the...

While the relationship between international trade and domestic economic activity is an important topic in economics, research in this area has been slowed due to data limitations. In this paper we provide tools that improve the existing data in two ways. First, we develop an algorithm that...

This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a, 2012b), the...

This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...

This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...

This paper provides and describes concordances between the ten-digit Harmonized System (HS) categories used to classify products in U.S. international trade and the four-digit SIC and six-digit NAICS industries that cover the years 1989 to 2006. We also provide concordances between ten-digit HS...

This paper provides and describes concordances between the ten-digit Harmonized System (HS) categories used to classify products in U.S. international trade and the four-digit SIC and six-digit NAICS industries that cover the years 1989 to 2006. We also provide concordances between ten-digit HS...

The Harmonized System is normally amended by the World Customs Organization every four to six years. These amendments pose considerable challenges for the WTO and its Members. On the one hand, Members need to periodically update their historical schedules of concessions into the latest...

Grundlagen des Commodity Marketing -- Besonderheiten des Commodity Marketing (z.B. Preismanagement, Markenmanagement, Kundenbindungsmanagement) -- Branchenspezifisches Commodity Marketing (z.B. Energiesektor, Dienstleistungen) -- Commodity Marketing – eine internationale Perspektive.

Das Übereinkommen des "Harmonisierten Systems zur Bezeichnung und Codierung der Waren" (auch „Harmonisiertes System“ genannt, abgekürzt HS) wurde mit Wirkung vom 1. Januar 1988 in Kraft gesetzt und wird inzwischen in mehr als 190 Staaten, Gebieten und Wirtschaftssystemen angewendet. Damit...