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Title
International Trade in Biotechnology Products and Strategic Mandatory Labelling
Creator
Creator Name
Jinji, Naoto Jinji, Naoto
神事, 直人 神事, 直人
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
biotechnology
credence goods
genetically modified food
labelling
strategic trade policy
JEL
F12
F13
L15
Q17
Q18
Abstract (distribution restricted)
This paper examines strategic motives to impose mandatory labelling of biotechnology products when consumers perceive these products as being of lower quality. When a foreign dominant firm produces a biotechnology product, it is shown that without mandatory labelling fringe firms, which produce a conventional product, provide voluntary labelling as long as voluntary labelling is fully credible. Information on which product is biotechnologically engineered is hence completely disclosed without mandatory labelling. An importing country may nevertheless impose mandatory labelling mainly because part of labelling cost can be shifted to the foreign dominant firm. Strategic mandatory labelling, however, is not always protectionist.
Description
This version: January 30, 2003
Publisher
Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2003-04
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Discussion papers ; No. 2003-01
Number of Pages
23
Appears in Collections
Discussion papers / Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/16955