TY  - RPRT
AB  - Protection of indications of geographical origin (GIs) can reduce information asymmetry between producers and consumers, and potentially enhance trade. However, GIs can also possibly divert trade.  We rely on panel data about agri-food trade among the 27 countries of the European Union to investigate these issues using variations of estimators proposed by Head and Mayer (2000) and Santos Silva and Tenreyro (2006). Our findings suggest that the protection of GIs creates trade when the importing and exporting countries have GI-protected products. There is also empirical evidence regarding a trade-diverting effect when the importing country does not have GIs and a border enlargement effect arising from European GI-protection.
AU  - Sorgho, Zakaria
AU  - Larue, Bruno
DA  - 2014-01
DA  - 2014-01
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.162246
DO  - doi
ID  - 162246
KW  - International Relations/Trade
KW  - Geographical indications
KW  - European Union
KW  - Agri-food Trade
KW  - Gravity Model
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162246/files/CREATE2014-1.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162246/files/CREATE2014-1.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162246/files/CREATE2014-1.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162246/files/CREATE2014-1.pdf
N2  - Protection of indications of geographical origin (GIs) can reduce information asymmetry between producers and consumers, and potentially enhance trade. However, GIs can also possibly divert trade.  We rely on panel data about agri-food trade among the 27 countries of the European Union to investigate these issues using variations of estimators proposed by Head and Mayer (2000) and Santos Silva and Tenreyro (2006). Our findings suggest that the protection of GIs creates trade when the importing and exporting countries have GI-protected products. There is also empirical evidence regarding a trade-diverting effect when the importing country does not have GIs and a border enlargement effect arising from European GI-protection.
PY  - 2014-01
PY  - 2014-01
T1  - Geographical Indication Regulation and Intra-Trade in the European Union
TI  - Geographical Indication Regulation and Intra-Trade in the European Union
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162246/files/CREATE2014-1.pdf
Y1  - 2014-01
T2  - CREATE Working Papers
T2  - 2014-1
ER  -