Schlüter, Simon Wilhelm: Impact of regulatory measures on international trade in meat products. - Bonn, 2012. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/5106,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-28637,
author = {{Simon Wilhelm Schlüter}},
title = {Impact of regulatory measures on international trade in meat products},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2012,
month = jun,

note = {The impact of regulatory measures on trade and welfare is assumed to be non-uniform: Regulations may have negative, no, or even positive trade and welfare effects. Therefore, the impacts of different specific regulatory measures are systematically compared with each other in two case studies. The applied quantitative models and their implementation are theoretically as well as economically derived and possible alternatives are discussed.
Employing a non-linear gravity model with fixed effects being estimated by Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood, the differing quantitative effects of applied regulatory measures that govern international trade in meat are analyzed in the first case study. Additionally, regulations are identified which most adequately conform to the trade restrictiveness provisions of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement and the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement. Especially production process requirements and requirements for handling meat after slaughtering are identified to be trade restrictive, whereas other analyzed requirements are even trade promoting.
Using a sample selection seemingly unrelated regression gravity model and a spatial Takayama-Judge partial equilibrium model, the second case study analyzes a change in a specific regulation related to biohazards to identify trade and welfare changes of different policy options. Poultry meat and avian influenza-related regulatory measures are used as examples. Spread and transmission risks according to the disease status of countries are considered. The econometric model shows that for non-heat-treated poultry meat a general ban leads to a near breakdown of trade, whereas complying with the principle of regionalization has a clear positive trade impact in comparison to a situation without any regulatory policy. For heat-treated poultry meat these plausible outcomes could not be replicated. The simulation model results confirm the negative welfare impact of currently implemented regulatory policies and indicate that significant trade reorganization occurs.
The thesis ends with a summary of the major findings and gives recommendations for further research. It surely advances existing literature in comparing systematically and quantitatively the trade and welfare effects of different regulatory measures, but it fails in giving standardized advice to policy makers how to generally identify the optimal regulatory solutions.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/5106}
}

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