Restrictions on Trade in Distribution Services
Staff Research Paper
Restrictions on Trade in Distribution Services by Kaleeswaran Kalirajan was released on 16 August 2000. In this study, which focuses on wholesale and retail trade, government restrictions on trade in distribution services have been quantified using an index methodology. This methodology categorises available information on regulation and awards a score to each economy that is based on an assessment of the level of restrictiveness. An index score has been calculated for domestic and foreign firms to separately quantify the extent to which regulation restricts domestic and international competition.
Released concurrently with this paper is a related study, Restrictions on Trade in Professional Services, which focuses on restrictions affecting trade in the legal, accountancy,architectural and engineering professions. Also see:
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Preface, Contents, Summary
1 Introduction
2 A Trade Restrictiveness Index for distribution services
2.1 Types of restrictions on trade in distribution services
2.2 Restrictiveness index methodology
2.3 Results for 38 economies
3 Modelling the effect of restrictions on distributors’ price-cost margins
3.1 Using price-cost margins to measure the effects of trade restrictions
3.2 The determinants of price-cost margins for distributors
3.3 Estimating the impact of trade restrictions on the price-cost margins of distributors
3.4 First stage results
3.5 Second stage results
4 Quantifying the cost impact
4.1 Deriving a cost impact measure for restrictions on trade in distribution services
4.2 Results for 18 economies
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