dc.contributor.author | FIORINI, Matteo | |
dc.contributor.author | HOEKMAN, Bernard M. | |
dc.contributor.author | JANSEN, Marion | |
dc.contributor.author | SCHLEIFER, Philip | |
dc.contributor.author | SOLLEDER, Olga | |
dc.contributor.author | TAIMASOVA, Regina | |
dc.contributor.author | WOZNIAK, Joseph | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-24T14:23:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-24T14:23:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1028-3625 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/45844 | |
dc.description.abstract | Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) have long become a usual attribute of international production and trade. Despite the fact that VSS are not legally binding, in order to be a part of global value chains, they have become de facto mandatory, and non-compliance may lead to exclusion of producers from the value chains. The relevance of VSS is reflected by a growing literature across social sciences, in particular economics and political science. This paper describes a new database that collects comparable information on 180 standards and their governance structure, across a wide range of products and countries. We conduct a first empirical analysis of this data with a primary focus on two aspects of standards and their governance: their practices and features in support of producers, and their geographic availability. We find high variability of support and availability across standards systems and countries respectively. Finally, we identify standards- and country-specific features associated with higher support to producers and higher geographic availability. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI RSCAS | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2017/18 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Global Governance Programme-260 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Global Economics | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.subject | Standards | en |
dc.subject | Voluntary sustainability standards | en |
dc.subject | Sustainable development | en |
dc.subject | Global value chains | en |
dc.subject | Certification | en |
dc.subject | F13 | en |
dc.subject | L15 | en |
dc.subject | O10 | en |
dc.subject | Q01 | en |
dc.subject.other | Trade, investment and international cooperation | |
dc.title | Suppliers’ access to voluntary sustainability standards | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
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