@article{Munasib:125025,
      recid = {125025},
      author = {Munasib, Abdul B.A. and Roy, Devesh},
      title = {Nontariff Barriers as Bridge to Cross},
      address = {2011-01},
      number = {1007-2016-79617},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Importing country standards emerge as an effective trade  barrier when they exceed those of the exporting country’s  domestic market. We introduce a new concept: bridge to  cross (BTC), the regulatory gap between the exporting and  importing countries. Importer regulations cannot be  identified in a gravity model when multilateral resistance  is correctly accounted for with exporter-time and  importer-time fixed-effects. BTC, however, can be  identified because it varies over time and by trading pair.  As an application we apply the method to an SPS regulation  regarding Aflatoxin contamination in maize. We find that  the effect of BTC is higher for poorer countries.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125025},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.125025},
}