The purpose of this article is to assess whether food safety regulations imposed by the European Union in the 2000s may have induced a slow-down in the productivity of firms in the food processing sector. The impact of regulations on costs and productivity has seldom been studied. This article...

EU regulation on quality food products (PDO labeling) is expected to sustain competitiveness within the agricultural sector. This paper examines the impact of this policy on the survival of cheese firms over the period 1990-2006 in France. We show that such a policy (Ap- pellation d'Origine...

En utilisant les données de l'Enquête Annuelle d'Entreprise (EAE), nous évaluons l'évolution de la productivité de l'industrie agro-alimentaire française au cours de la période 1996-2006. Cette analyse est menée pour les 41 classes d'activité de cette industrie ainsi qu'à des niveaux...