Despite the several benefits attributed to voluntary standards, these standards may open room to strategies aiming at …

Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

Thanks to an original database on French firms we investigate the impact of environmental-related standards on … employees’ recruitment. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that voluntary environmental-related standards (i.e., ISO 14001 …

This paper presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy model. We use the model to derive …-standardization?or `over-standardization?results, and which standards can be labeled as (producer)protectionist measures. …

This paper presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy model. We use the model to derive …-standardization?or `over-standardization?results, and which standards can be labeled as (producer)protectionist measures. …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

This paper presents a general political economy model of standards. We use the model to derive political and social … optima of nutrition and health standards in food markets, and to identify under which cases “understandardization” or “over …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …