Trade and the Political Economy of Food Standards
构建了一个开放经济中公共标准的政治经济学模型，分析贸易如何影响政治均衡，并比较政治结果与社会最优，以识别标准被设定得过低或过高的情况。
This article presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy. We use the model to derive the political optimum and to analyse different factors that have an influence on this political equilibrium. We analyse the relationship between trade and the political equilibria and compare the political outcome with the social optimum to identify under which cases political considerations lead to standards being set ‘too low’ or ‘too high’, and which standards could be labelled as protectionist measures.