Burnquist, Heloisa Lee; Souza, Mauricio Jorge Pinto de; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper introduces a methodological framework based on indices for regulatory heterogeneity which is useful to … regulatory heterogeneity in trade (HIT index), constructed to combine binary, ordered and quantitative information, and the index … of directional heterogeneity in trade (DHIT), which excludes regulations introduced by importing countries that are less …