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| Title: | Technical Barriers to Interstate Trade: Noxious Weed Regulations |
| Authors: | Gopinath, Munisamy
Min, He
Buccola, Steven T. |
| Keywords: | interstate trade
invasive species
rent-seeking |
| JEL Codes: | F1
H7
Q5 |
| Issue Date: | 2010-11 |
| Abstract: | We focus on regulations controlling the spread of noxious weeds, especially the trade effects of regulatory differences across U.S. states. We specify a gravity model for each state’s seed, nursery product, and commodity trade with each other state. Within the gravity model, we
examine the role of cross-state regulatory congruence arising from ecological and agronomic characteristics and interest-group lobbying. A spatial-autoregressive Tobit model is estimated with a modified expectation-maximization algorithm. Results show that weed regulatory congruence positively affects interstate trade. By fostering cross-state regulatory differences,
consumer and commodity-producer lobbying reduce the value of interstate trade by about
two percent per annum. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/100527 |
| Institution/Association: | Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 42, Number 04, November 2010 |
| Total Pages: | 14 |
| From Page: | 617 |
| To Page: | 630 |
| Collections: | Volume 42, Number 04, November 2010
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