International Standards and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion

Joseph A. Clougherty, Michal Grajek

NBER Working Paper No. 18132
Issued in June 2012

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Financial support from the German Federal Ministry of Education & Research is gratefully acknowledged (project 01AK702A). We also thank Susanne Prantl, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Oz Shy, Christian Wey, and Eric van Wincoop, as well as seminar (Univ. of Illinois, ESMT Berlin, SFB in Berlin) and conference (EARIE in Porto and Ljubljana, Applied Infrastructure Research in Berlin, EEA in Amsterdam, ICT & Economic Growth in Munich, ETSG in Athens, and the NBER Pre-Conference and Conference on "Patents, Standards, and Innovation") participants for helpful comments and discussions. Claudia Baldermann and Jennifer Rontganger provided excellent research assistance. All remaining errors, however, are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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