EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

The effects of non-tariff measures on agri-food trade: a review and meta-analysis of empirical evidence

Fabio Santeramo and Emilia Lamonaca

Papers from arXiv.org

Abstract: The increasing policy interests and the vivid academic debate on non-tariff measures (NTMs) has stimulated a growing literature on how NTMs affect agrifood trade. The empirical literature provides contrasting and heterogeneous evidence, with some studies supporting the standards as catalysts view, and others favouring the standards as barriers explanation. To the extent that NTMs can influence trade, understanding the prevailing effect, and the motivations behind one effect or the other, is a pressing issue. We review a large body of empirical evidence on the effect of NTMs on agri-food trade and conduct a meta-analysis to disentangle potential determinants of heterogeneity in estimates. Our findings show the role played by the publication process and by study-specific assumptions. Some characteristics of the studies are correlated with positive significant estimates, others covary with negative significant estimates. Overall, we found that the effects of NTMs vary across types of NTMs, proxy for NTMs, and levels of details of studies. Not negligible is the influence of methodological issues and publication process.

Date: 2018-11
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (20)

Published in Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020

Downloads: (external link)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.06323 Latest version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The Effects of Non‐tariff Measures on Agri‐food Trade: A Review and Meta‐analysis of Empirical Evidence (2019) Downloads
Working Paper: The effects of non-tariff measures on agri-food trade: a review and meta-analysis of empirical evidence (2018) Downloads
Working Paper: The effects of non-tariff measures on agri-food trade: a review and meta-analysis of empirical evidence (2018) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:arx:papers:1811.06323

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Papers from arXiv.org
Bibliographic data for series maintained by arXiv administrators ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-30
Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:1811.06323