Do food standards affect the quality of EU imports?

Alessandro Olper, Daniele Curzi and Lucia Pacca

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 122, issue 2, 233-237

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between the diffusion of EU standards and product quality upgrading using highly disaggregated import data to the EU in the food industry. Results show that, on average, the diffusion of EU voluntary standards boosts the rate of quality upgrading. However, the results are heterogeneous when moving from primary to processed foods, and from ISO to non-ISO standards.

Keywords: Quality upgrading; EU food standards; Competition; Distance to the frontier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F13 F14 L15 O14 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.11.031

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