Documents et rapports
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Economic Consequences of Cabotage Restrictions : The Effect of the Jones Act on Puerto Rico (anglais)
This paper studies the consequences of a U.S. cabotage law for Puerto Rico (PR). Data on ship arrivals in PR show that the fleet of U.S. vessels that call there lacks capacity for carrying non-containerized...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10780 Date du document: 21 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Cases Jimenez,Manuel Felipe
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Risk Management in Border Inspection (anglais)
As part of their commitments under the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade Facilitation, many developing countries are set to adopt risk management, a strategy for selecting import shipments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9438 Date du document: 14 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Karabay,Bilgehan,Tan,Shawn Weiming
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Trade Facilitation Reform - The Impact of Targeted Sampling on Import Compliance (anglais)
The results of an impact evaluation of the introduction of a risk-based approach to sampling import shipments by the Macedonian Food and Veterinary Agency indicate that the sampling plan was not effectively...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 125873 Date du document: 1 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Alcántara,Alejandra Mendoza
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An evaluation of border management reforms in a technical agency (anglais)
Impact evaluations of trade facilitation reforms have almost exclusively focused on reforms by data-rich customs agencies. Other "technical" agencies also intervene in the logistics of international trade...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8208 Date du document: 2 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mendoza Alcantara,Alejandra
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Expediting trade : Impact evaluation of Serbia’s in-house clearance program (anglais)
Reforms of national customs agencies are supported by increasingamounts of development aid. However, there have been very fewformal evaluations of their effectiveness. This note summarizesresearch about...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 116522 Date du document: 1 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Berg,Claudia N.,Mendoza Alcantara,Alejandra
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Import dynamics and demands for protection (anglais)
What kinds of changes in foreign competition lead domestic industries to seek import protection? To address this question the authors use detailed monthly U.S. import data to investigate changes in import...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 115268 Date du document: 1 août 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mccalman,Phillip Justin
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Expediting trade : impact evaluation of an in-house clearance program (anglais)
Despite the importance of trade facilitation as an area of trade and development policy, there have been very few impact evaluations of specific trade facilitation reforms. This paper offers an evaluation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7708 Date du document: 20 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Berg,Claudia N.
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A Coasian model of international production chains (anglais)
International supply chains require the coordination of numerous activities across multiple countries and firms. This paper develops a theoretical model of supply chains in which the measure of tasks completed...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7434 Date du document: 6 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fally,Thibault,Hillberry,Russell Henry
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Open skies over the Middle East (anglais)
The dynamism of air traffic markets in the Middle East obscures the persistence of restrictions on international competition. But how important are such restrictions for passenger traffic? This paper uses...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100196 Date du document: 14 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cristea,Anca Diana,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Understanding the operations of freight forwarders : evidence from Serbia (anglais)
Freight forwarders play a key role in moving goods across international borders. They arrange transport, oversee customs clearance on behalf of their clients, and more generally troubleshoot issues that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7311 Date du document: 17 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mendoza Alcantara,Alejandra,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Hillberry,Russell Henry
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Risk management in customs : benefits of customs reform - the evidence from Albania (anglais)
Research into the economic impact of a customs reform in Albania shows the promise of the broader trade facilitation reform efforts that are gaining momentum in developing countries worldwide. The research...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 97220 Date du document: 1 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Alcántara, Alejandra Mendoza
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Policy and performance in customs : evaluating the trade facilitation agreement (anglais)
The 2013 World Trade Organization ministerial in Bali produced a comprehensive framework agreement on trade facilitation. If fully implemented, the agreement should increase the speed and reduce the cost...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7211 Date du document: 10 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Zhang,Xiaohui
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Trade effects of customs reform : evidence from Albania (anglais)
Despite enormous academic interest in international trade costs and keen policy interest in efforts to mitigate them, so far there is very little hard evidence on the impacts of trade facilitation efforts...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7210 Date du document: 10 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mendoza Alcantara,Alejandra
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Open skies over the Middle East (anglais)
The dynamism of air traffic markets in the Middle East obscures the persistence of restrictions on international competition. But how important are such restrictions for passenger traffic? This paper uses...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6937 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cristea,Anca Diana,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Import dynamics and demands for protection (anglais)
What kinds of changes in foreign competition lead domestic industries to seek import protection? To address this question this paper uses detailed monthly U.S. import data to investigate changes in import...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6796 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Mccalman,Phillip Justin