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dc.contributor.authorSANTERAMO, Fabio Gaetano
dc.contributor.authorLAMONACA, Emilia
dc.contributor.authorEMLINGER, Charlotte
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-19T10:22:20Z
dc.date.available2023-07-19T10:22:20Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.issn1932-1465
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/75784
dc.description.abstractTechnical regulations are numerous, growing, and less transparent than price measures. Frequently used for Non-trade Policy Objectives (NTPOs), the technical regulations are adopted also for environmental protection. The trade effects of environmental measures are underinvestigated. Relying on a unique and original dataset of technical measures notified for environmental reasons, we show how they hinder bilateral trade flows, and tend to favour trade flows of countries with solid economic and political influence, such as high-income and G20 economies. Regardless of the environmental impacts of the technical regulations, beyond the scope of our investigation, the measures shape trade in favour of the wealthiest and most industrialised countries which have better financial and technical endowments to comply with environmentally friendly requirements. Far from suggesting which mechanism drives the discriminatory nature, we argue that the rapid raise of new regulations for the environmental protection may exacerbate existing divide.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRSCen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2023/45en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Governance Programme-509en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectInternational tradeen
dc.subjectNon-trade policy objectiveen
dc.subjectTechnical regulationen
dc.subjectTBTen
dc.titleTechnical measures, environmental protection, and tradeen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
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