Private standards play an increasingly important governance role, yet their effects on state-led policymaking remain understudied. We examine how the operation of private agricultural influences multilateral pesticide with a particular focus listing substances under Rotterdam Convention Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, treat...

Abstract We look at the effect of WTO on stabilizing international trade using both a fixed-effects and an event study approach. Our results show that members experience lower volatilties in predictable integrated system. In addition, we focus volatility comovement among countries multilateral framework. Previous research has mainly focused membership bilateral framework, which only allows inte...