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- RatSWD Quality Standards Working Group (2015): Quality Standards for the Development, Application, and Evaluation of Measurement Instruments in Social Science Survey Research
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RePEc:rsw:rswwps:rswwps245 Save to MyIDEAS - Wang, Xuemei & Yan, Rui & Zhao, Yuying & Cheng, Shikun & Han, Yanzhao & Yang, Shuo & Cai, Di & Mang, Heinz-Peter & Li, Zifu (2020): Biogas standard system in China
China has built a complete biogas standard system, which is divided into common, household biogas, biogas engineering, biogas digester for domestic sewage treatment, output utilization, and service system standards. The problems and potential barriers for biogas standardization in China are analyzed and come down to sluggish standard, overlapped standard, government-dominated standard, and lagging international standard. ... China Biogas Society and China Association of Rural Energy Industry play leading roles in developing enterprise or group/association biogas standards and ISO biogas standards. The bio-natural gas standard system and experimental standardization should be developed as well to replenish biogas standard system. ... The lessons learned for other developing countries includes expanding standardization to multi-aspects to realize full lifecycle control and management, building rapid responding mechanism of standardization to adopt industry transformation, integrating outdated standards into new versions, and establishing market-based standard system.
RePEc:eee:renene:v:157:y:2020:i:c:p:1265-1273 Save to MyIDEAS - Stephan Marette & John Beghin (2010): Are standards always protectionist?
We analyze the effect of heterogeneity of foreign and domestic producers on product standard and investigate whether the standard chosen by the welfare-maximizing policymaker is protectionist. ... The policymaker chooses a minimum domestic standard that has to be met by both domestic and foreign producers. Protectionism occurs when the welfare-maximizing domestic standard is higher than the international standard maximizing welfare inclusive of foreign profits. We show that the standard is anti-protectionist when foreign producers are much more efficient at addressing the externality than are domestic producers. Possible exclusion of domestic or foreign producers arises with large standards, which may alter the classification of a standard as protectionist or non-protectionist.
RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01172977 Save to MyIDEAS - Thijs Vandemoortele (2011): When are Private Standards more Stringent then Public Standards?
Retailers’ private standards are increasingly important in addressing consumer concerns about safety, quality and social and environmental issues. Empirical evidence shows that these private standards are frequently more stringent than their public counterparts. ... I show that if producers exercise their political power to persuade the government to impose a lower public standard, retailers may apply their market power to install a private standard at a higher level than the public one, depending on several factors.
RePEc:lic:licosd:29611 Save to MyIDEAS - Centre for the Study of Living Standards (2012): The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Productivity of the Canadian Transportation System: A Macroeconomic Approach for the Air and Rail Sectors
Using industry-level data, we find that the standard neoclassical growth accounting framework does not appear to adequately capture the importance of ICT on air and rail productivity.
RePEc:sls:resrep:1207 Save to MyIDEAS - Blind, Knut (2011): An economic analysis of standards competition: The example of the ISO ODF and OOXML standards
The objective of this paper is to analyze economic efficiency considerations of standards competition, in order to thereby enrich the discussion about the transfer of the ECMA-376-1 (Office Open XML - OOXML) standard into the ISO/IEC 29500:2008 standard parallel to the already existing ISO/IEC 26300:2006 (Open Document Format for Office Applications - ODF) standard. Based on the available economic literature we identify parameters that need to be considered in the decision for or against a competition between competing standards. The characteristics in the specific case of competition between the ODF and the OOOXML standard clearly justify the decision for two documents standards.
RePEc:eee:telpol:v:35:y:2011:i:4:p:373-381 Save to MyIDEAS - John Schmitt & David Rosnick (2008): 'Misunderestimating' Living Standards
This issue brief finds that a forecast by Oxford Economics suggesting that the United Kingdom’s living standards will exceed those of the U.S. in 2008 is misleading. CEPR found that the forecast relies on a basic misunderstanding of standard methods of comparing international standards of living.
RePEc:epo:papers:2008-01 Save to MyIDEAS - Schmidt, Julia & Steingress, Walter (2022): No double standards: Quantifying the impact of standard harmonization on trade
This paper quantifies a novel channel that contributes to greater trade integration: the release of harmonized, voluntary product standards. Standards define product characteristics that ensure compatibility, quality and consistency. Harmonized standards unify these characteristics across countries and reduce country-specific adaption costs. We create a novel database on cross-country standards and show that harmonized standards have contributed up to 13% of the growth in global trade. We build a heterogeneous firm model where harmonized standards generate scale effects and induce firms to adopt the standard.
RePEc:eee:inecon:v:137:y:2022:i:c:s0022199622000514 Save to MyIDEAS - Eva Peggy Sekatzek & Helmut Krcmar (2009): Measurement of the Standard Proximity of Adapted Standard Business Software
In order to optimize the economical use of SAP software systems and to increase the cost effectiveness of the SAP investment, the available SAP standard system should be implemented in the best possible way. While standard functionality has no negative effects on maintenance and operating cost, modification of the standard has the potential to drive costs (Markus et al. 2000). An integrated methodology and an efficient instrument for the operational and strategic evaluation of this topic are crucial for an efficient application of SAP standard software. ... This measurement methodology allows for measuring the standard proximity (i. e. proximity of used functionality to standard functionality) in SAP systems thereby creating transparency regarding the use of the available standard and non-standard functions. ... From the results of the measurement, actions are derived which foster the standard utilization and thus the efficiency of an SAP system.
RePEc:spr:binfse:v:1:y:2009:i:3:p:234-244 Save to MyIDEAS - CSLS Research Reports (Centre for the Study of Living Standards)
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