Environment and quality standards in the WTO: New protectionism in agricultural trade? A European perspective

Quantifying the Trade Effect of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Regulations of OECD Countries on South African Food Exports

“…Moenius (1999) and Mahe (1997) also stated that the model is one of the most successful and therefore widely used frameworks for empirical analysis of trade flows between countries.…”

Australian wines in the British wine market: A hedonic price analysis

“…Nimon and Beghin (1999) examine the implications of eco-labelling schemes on consumer choice sets and product quality in the trade of textile and apparel. Mahé (1997) and Bureau, Marette, and Schiavina (1998) investigate the role of information on quality attributes and the role of quality labelling in the process of agricultural trade liberalisation and in determining welfare eects from such de-regulation. Marette, Crespi, and Schiavina (1999) analyse the impact of certied quality labelling on welfare when common labelling schemes matter and asymmetric information is present.…”

Exploring future developments in international olive oil trade and marketing: A Spanish perspective

“…From the supply point of view, these processes are creating openings for new products and for products from a variety of geographical areas in markets to which it had hitherto been difficult to gain access. This is provided, of course, that they meet certain requirements relating to quality (Hooker & Caswell, 1996;Mahé, 1997) and to efficiency as part of integrated, stable agribusiness chains (Watts, 1995). It could be said that the environment for these products is becoming "truly transnational" (Barrett et al, 1999), in that tariff and nontariff barriers are gradually disappearing for the exchange of goods and services.…”