Non-tariff trade barriers and consumers' information: The case of the EU-US trade dispute over beef
Non-tariff trade barriers and consumers' information: The case of the EU-US trade dispute over beef
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DOI：
10.1093/erae/25.4.437
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Schiavina, A
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作者：
Bureau, JC;Marette, S;Schiavina, A
建立在欧盟-美国贸易争端的实证案例的牛肉处理的分析框架，消费者不完全了解进口产品的质量，是用来调查的福利效应的情况下，信用良好的贸易自由化。向被认为质量低于国内产品的外国产品开放国内市场可能会导致市场效率低下（例如，逆向选择）和多重均衡，即使这些产品实际上是安全的。这可能会抵消贸易自由化的一些好处。由于信息问题，反对国家管制壁垒的裁决的福利效果在分析上是模糊的。在更全球范围内，解决卫生问题的国际争端应包括更多的成本效益分析，而不仅仅是依靠科学考虑。
Building on the empirical case of the EU-US trade dispute on hormone-treated beef an analytical framework, where consumers are imperfectly informed about the quality of imports, is used to investigate the welfare effect of trade liberalisation in the case of a credence good. Opening the domestic market to foreign products that are perceived to be of lower quality than domestic products may lead to market inefficiencies (e.g., adverse selection) and multiple equilibria, even though these products are actually safe. This may offset some of the benefits of trade liberalisation. The welfare effects of ruling against national regulatory barriers are analytically ambiguous because of information problems. More globally, the settlement of international disputes on sanitary issues should include more cost-benefit analysis, rather than relying only on scientific considerations.