Bontemps, Christophe, Nauges, Céline, Réquillart, Vincent and Simioni, Michel (2012) Food Safety Regulation and Firm Productivity:Evidence from the French Food Industry. TSE Working Paper, n. 12-275, Toulouse

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Abstract

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 contributes to the literature by measuring productivity change using a panel of French food processing firms for the years 1996 to 2006. To do so, we develop an original iterative testing procedure based on the comparison of the distribution of efficiency scores of a set of firms. Our results confirm that productivity decreased in two major food processing sectors (poultry and cheese) at the time when safety regulation was reinforced.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: January 2012
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2014 17:22
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:47
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:25479
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15188
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