Curzi, Daniele; Raimondi, Valentina; Olper, Alessandro - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
This paper analyzes the extent to which the reduction of import tariffs ‒ as a measure of import competition ‒ affects the quality upgrading of the food products exported to the EU. This relationship is studied within a ‘distance to the frontier’ model (Aghion et al., 2005) who predicts...