Liberalising non‐tariff measures through regional trade agreements
The impact on multinational production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21543232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Raimondi (0000-0002-2750-4255, Environmental Science and Policy University of Milano Milan Italy), Margherita Scoppola (0000-0002-0211-0508, Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto Università di Macerata Macerata Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 3308-3338 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-5920 • E-ISSN: 1467-9701 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/twec.13582 |
| OpenAlex | W4396642403 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
Modern Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) include, among other chapters, ones concerning sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBT). Drawing on recent literature highlighting the relationship between “deep” RTAs and the global organisation of production, this paper empirically investigates whether these SPS and TBT provisions affect multinational production in the food, beverages and tobacco industry. To this end, we combine two different databases to estimate, in a panel gravity framework, both the intensive and extensive margins of multinational production. Because the extensive margin of multinational production may be persistent, a dynamic probit specification is used. Our results show that legally enforceable SPS sections in RTAs, in particular, influence multinational production, though with a rather differentiated pattern in terms of intensive and extensive margins; further, the impact changes depending on the country of origin and destination
Business · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Gravity model of trade · International economics · International free trade agreement · International trade · Multinational corporation · Phytosanitary certification · Probit model · Tariff · Technical barriers to trade · Trade barrier · Trade diversion · Computer Science · Global trade and economics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · World Trade Organization Law
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |