Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time

The EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed provides information on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) notifications. With a set of data from the 1998-2013 period, we test the hypothesis that past notifications can determine current notifications. This is the “reputation effect”, meaning that inspec...

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Main Authors: Ibtissem Taghouti, Víctor Martínez-Gómez, Luisa Marti
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Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2016-12-01
Series:Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales
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Online Access:https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/5977
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description The EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed provides information on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) notifications. With a set of data from the 1998-2013 period, we test the hypothesis that past notifications can determine current notifications. This is the “reputation effect”, meaning that inspectors may tend to target products or countries with previous SPS problems. We analyze the scope of the reputation effect over time. We used two count data models to estimate the distribution of current notifications. In line with previous literature, our findings indicate that reputation does affect current EU notifications. Furthermore, we identify some relevant exporter countries for which reputation is long-lasting.
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spelling doaj-art-0b59d23ff8fc438a8e8bb0d3df79b8d52025-01-02T18:53:48ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaEconomía Agraria y Recursos Naturales1578-07322174-73502016-12-01162698810.7201/earn.2016.02.034325Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over timeIbtissem Taghouti0Víctor Martínez-Gómez1Luisa Marti2National Research Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests; Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaThe EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed provides information on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) notifications. With a set of data from the 1998-2013 period, we test the hypothesis that past notifications can determine current notifications. This is the “reputation effect”, meaning that inspectors may tend to target products or countries with previous SPS problems. We analyze the scope of the reputation effect over time. We used two count data models to estimate the distribution of current notifications. In line with previous literature, our findings indicate that reputation does affect current EU notifications. Furthermore, we identify some relevant exporter countries for which reputation is long-lasting.https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/5977agri-food tradecount modelsrasffreputation effectsps measures
spellingShingle Ibtissem Taghouti
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Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time
Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales
agri-food trade
count models
rasff
reputation effect
sps measures
title Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time
title_full Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time
title_fullStr Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time
title_full_unstemmed Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time
title_short Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time
title_sort sanitary and phytosanitary measures in agri food imports from the european union reputation effects over time
topic agri-food trade
count models
rasff
reputation effect
sps measures
url https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EARN/article/view/5977
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