The Size of Terroir: A Theoretical Note on Economics and Politics of Geographical Indications
这篇理论笔记提出了一个灵活的概念框架，用于分析地理标志区域的最优规模，探讨了规模对效率和分配的影响，以及如何影响利益集团游说政府决策的动机。
Abstract Geographical indications (GI) certify the geographical origins of a product and delineate the specific area in which the certified product must be produced. Despite a large literature on the economics of GIs, few papers have explored the question of the optimal size of GI regions. This note presents a flexible conceptual framework to explore the economics and politics of the delimitation of a GI. The general framework describes the efficiency and distributional effects of the size of a GI and shows how this affects interest groups’ incentives to influence government decision‐making.