has the effect of improving overall productivity by shifting the best practice technology frontier while at the same time … making it increasingly difficult for smaller competitors to survive. In an Irish context, the food industry has recently been … acknowledged in national policy as an important sector for future development. The aim of this paper is to measure the productivity …

The effect of food standards on agricultural trade flows remains unclear. We contribute to the debate with a unique … dataset that contains the number of food processing firms of 88 countries from 2008 to 2013 that are certified with the …

two food markets. The few agreements that failed to have a positive effect on member trade in either commodity food or … manufactured food involve developing countries that typically grant very limited cross-border trade preference to member countries …, nonmember exporters of food bore the cost of the RTA-induced expansion of trade. Five RTAs lowered food imports from nonmember …