Harmonization of Food Regulations and Trade in the Single Market: Evidence from Disaggregated Data
(2006) IATRC Summer symposium — Location: Bonn (Germany)
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- This paper uses a structural gravity model based on Anderson and van Wincoop (2003) to quantify the effect of EU harmonization of food regulations on intra-EU trade for 1990-2001. We construct a database that identifies food products covered by harmonized regulations at a very detailed level. First, we find at different levels of aggregation, that harmonization of food regulations has contributed to more intra-EU trade. Next, we find that tariff equivalents of the costs of not harmonizing with food regulations, subject to the sub-sector the elasticity of substitution, vary significantly across some food sub-sector.
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University of Tilburg
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Vancauteren, M., & Henry de Frahan, B. (2006). Harmonization of Food Regulations and Trade in the Single Market: Evidence from Disaggregated Data. Food Regulation and Trade: Institutional Framework, Concepts of Analysis and Empirical Evidence. IATRC Summer symposium, Bonn (Germany). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/225749