Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program

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 of in-house clearance, a reform that allows...

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Main Authors:	Fernandes, Ana M., Hillberry, Russell, Berg, Claudia
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	FORECASTS EMPLOYMENT VARIABILITY MULTILATERAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CORPORATION TIME IMPORT REGIMES DONOR RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS EVALUATION METHODS INTEREST SIMULATIONS TOURISM POLICY DATA COLLECTION EXPORTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MULTINATIONAL WELFARE OPTIMIZATION EFFECTS EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION VARIABLES MEASURES ESTIMATORS EXPORT CLEARANCE CUSTOMS CLEARANCE TRENDS TRADE BARRIER DEVELOPMENT INFLUENCE TECHNIQUES IMPORT DECLARATIONS COSTS EXPORT GROWTH TESTS EXPERIMENTS ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION CUSTOMS CRITERIA WTO FIRM DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES EXPORT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH IMPORTS STANDARDS TRADE POLICY AVERAGING IMPORT DECLARATION TESTING CUSTOMS TERRITORY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH TRADE VOLUME GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM CONSUMPTION FIRMS TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL TRADE VALIDITY VALUE IMPORT VALUES FORMAL ANALYSIS CUSTOMS REGULATIONS TOURISM EXPORT PROMOTION SAMPLES SIZE TRADE FACILITATION BENCHMARK TRADE LIBERALIZATION COMPANY TRADE AGENDA PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TRADE DATA WEIGHT TRADE HYPOTHESIS TESTING GOODS THEORY ESTIMATING SIMULATION EVALUATION DONORS BOYCOTTS WORLD TRADE ESTIMATES STRATEGIC RESEARCH SMALL FIRMS METHODOLOGY OUTCOMES IMPORT VALUE SEE GUARANTEE BENEFITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26506290/expediting-trade-impact-evaluation-in-house-clearance-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24625

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spelling	okr-10986-246252021-04-23T14:04:23Z Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program Fernandes, Ana M. Hillberry, Russell Berg, Claudia FORECASTS EMPLOYMENT VARIABILITY MULTILATERAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CORPORATION TIME IMPORT REGIMES DONOR RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS EVALUATION METHODS INTEREST SIMULATIONS TOURISM POLICY DATA COLLECTION EXPORTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MULTINATIONAL WELFARE OPTIMIZATION EFFECTS EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION VARIABLES MEASURES ESTIMATORS EXPORT CLEARANCE CUSTOMS CLEARANCE TRENDS TRADE BARRIER DEVELOPMENT INFLUENCE TECHNIQUES IMPORT DECLARATIONS COSTS EXPORT GROWTH TESTS EXPERIMENTS ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION CUSTOMS CRITERIA WTO FIRM DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES EXPORT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH IMPORTS STANDARDS TRADE POLICY AVERAGING IMPORT DECLARATION TESTING CUSTOMS TERRITORY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH TRADE VOLUME GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM CONSUMPTION FIRMS TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL TRADE VALIDITY VALUE IMPORT VALUES FORMAL ANALYSIS CUSTOMS REGULATIONS TOURISM EXPORT PROMOTION SAMPLES SIZE TRADE FACILITATION BENCHMARK TRADE LIBERALIZATION COMPANY TRADE AGENDA PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TRADE DATA WEIGHT TRADE HYPOTHESIS TESTING GOODS THEORY ESTIMATING SIMULATION EVALUATION DONORS BOYCOTTS WORLD TRADE ESTIMATES STRATEGIC RESEARCH SMALL FIRMS METHODOLOGY OUTCOMES IMPORT VALUE SEE GUARANTEE BENEFITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY 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 of in-house clearance, a reform that allows qualified firms in Serbia to clear customs from within their own warehouse rather than at the customs office. The pooled synthetic control method applied here offers a novel solution to many of the empirical challenges that frustrate efforts to evaluate trade facilitation reforms. The method is used to estimate causal impacts on trade outcomes for 21 firms that adopted in-house clearance for import shipments. The program compressed the distribution of clearance times for adopting firms, but the estimated effects on median clearance times, inspection rates, and import value were not statistically significant. Tests for heterogeneous program impact do not indicate that the program affected adopting firms differently. Overall, the results suggest that the most evident benefit of the program for participating firms is reduced uncertainty about clearance times. 2016-07-07T15:59:53Z 2016-07-07T15:59:53Z 2016-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26506290/expediting-trade-impact-evaluation-in-house-clearance-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24625 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7708 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Serbia
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topic	FORECASTS EMPLOYMENT VARIABILITY MULTILATERAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CORPORATION TIME IMPORT REGIMES DONOR RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS EVALUATION METHODS INTEREST SIMULATIONS TOURISM POLICY DATA COLLECTION EXPORTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MULTINATIONAL WELFARE OPTIMIZATION EFFECTS EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION VARIABLES MEASURES ESTIMATORS EXPORT CLEARANCE CUSTOMS CLEARANCE TRENDS TRADE BARRIER DEVELOPMENT INFLUENCE TECHNIQUES IMPORT DECLARATIONS COSTS EXPORT GROWTH TESTS EXPERIMENTS ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION CUSTOMS CRITERIA WTO FIRM DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES EXPORT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH IMPORTS STANDARDS TRADE POLICY AVERAGING IMPORT DECLARATION TESTING CUSTOMS TERRITORY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH TRADE VOLUME GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM CONSUMPTION FIRMS TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL TRADE VALIDITY VALUE IMPORT VALUES FORMAL ANALYSIS CUSTOMS REGULATIONS TOURISM EXPORT PROMOTION SAMPLES SIZE TRADE FACILITATION BENCHMARK TRADE LIBERALIZATION COMPANY TRADE AGENDA PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TRADE DATA WEIGHT TRADE HYPOTHESIS TESTING GOODS THEORY ESTIMATING SIMULATION EVALUATION DONORS BOYCOTTS WORLD TRADE ESTIMATES STRATEGIC RESEARCH SMALL FIRMS METHODOLOGY OUTCOMES IMPORT VALUE SEE GUARANTEE BENEFITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY
spellingShingle	FORECASTS EMPLOYMENT VARIABILITY MULTILATERAL TRADE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION CORPORATION TIME IMPORT REGIMES DONOR RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS EVALUATION METHODS INTEREST SIMULATIONS TOURISM POLICY DATA COLLECTION EXPORTS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MULTINATIONAL WELFARE OPTIMIZATION EFFECTS EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION VARIABLES MEASURES ESTIMATORS EXPORT CLEARANCE CUSTOMS CLEARANCE TRENDS TRADE BARRIER DEVELOPMENT INFLUENCE TECHNIQUES IMPORT DECLARATIONS COSTS EXPORT GROWTH TESTS EXPERIMENTS ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION CUSTOMS CRITERIA WTO FIRM DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES EXPORT SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH IMPORTS STANDARDS TRADE POLICY AVERAGING IMPORT DECLARATION TESTING CUSTOMS TERRITORY METHODS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH TRADE VOLUME GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM CONSUMPTION FIRMS TRAVEL INTERNATIONAL TRADE VALIDITY VALUE IMPORT VALUES FORMAL ANALYSIS CUSTOMS REGULATIONS TOURISM EXPORT PROMOTION SAMPLES SIZE TRADE FACILITATION BENCHMARK TRADE LIBERALIZATION COMPANY TRADE AGENDA PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TRADE DATA WEIGHT TRADE HYPOTHESIS TESTING GOODS THEORY ESTIMATING SIMULATION EVALUATION DONORS BOYCOTTS WORLD TRADE ESTIMATES STRATEGIC RESEARCH SMALL FIRMS METHODOLOGY OUTCOMES IMPORT VALUE SEE GUARANTEE BENEFITS DEVELOPMENT POLICY Fernandes, Ana M. Hillberry, Russell Berg, Claudia Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program
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description	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 of in-house clearance, a reform that allows qualified firms in Serbia to clear customs from within their own warehouse rather than at the customs office. The pooled synthetic control method applied here offers a novel solution to many of the empirical challenges that frustrate efforts to evaluate trade facilitation reforms. The method is used to estimate causal impacts on trade outcomes for 21 firms that adopted in-house clearance for import shipments. The program compressed the distribution of clearance times for adopting firms, but the estimated effects on median clearance times, inspection rates, and import value were not statistically significant. Tests for heterogeneous program impact do not indicate that the program affected adopting firms differently. Overall, the results suggest that the most evident benefit of the program for participating firms is reduced uncertainty about clearance times.
format	Working Paper
author	Fernandes, Ana M. Hillberry, Russell Berg, Claudia
author_facet	Fernandes, Ana M. Hillberry, Russell Berg, Claudia
author_sort	Fernandes, Ana M.
title	Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program
title_short	Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program
title_full	Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program
title_fullStr	Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program
title_full_unstemmed	Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program
title_sort	expediting trade : impact evaluation of an in-house clearance program
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26506290/expediting-trade-impact-evaluation-in-house-clearance-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24625
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Expediting Trade : Impact Evaluation of an In-House Clearance Program

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