Global Monitoring Report 2008 - Overall Trade Restrictiveness Indices

Authors:	Hiau Looi Kee and Alessandro Nicita
Non-Bank Author:	Marcelo Olarreaga
Web Address:	Trade Research
Topics:	Trade
Report Number:	WPS3840
Citation:
Kee, Hiau Looi, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga. "Estimating trade restrictiveness indices", Economic Journal (forthcoming). Kee, Hiau Looi, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga. "Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions", Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). Other Documents Kee, Hiau Looi, Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga. "Estimating trade restrictiveness indices", World Bank Policy Working Paper No. 3840, 2006. [Updated version of paper] The dataset files in this page contain the trade restrictiveness indices for the 2008 Global Monitoring Report, and the underlining data for their construction. The documentation consists of an academic paper, and a non-technical note describing the methodologies and data used to construct the indices. Access to Dataset Trade Restriction Indices Variables Description Dataset by country(zipped files, 18.5mb) Import Demand Elasticities (zipped file, 4.7mb) Ad-Valorum Equivalents of Non-Tariff Measures (zipped, 2mb) Enivronmental Goods (PDF, 10k)

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