- Paper: Trade Effects of Health Measures Applied to Mercosur Meat Exports
- Authors: Natalia Ferreria Coimbra (DECON/FACS/UDELAR) and Juan Labraga (Universidad ORT Uruguay)
- Speaker: Juan Labraga
- Event: BCU Annual Economics Conference
- Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
- Date: August 15, 2015
"Commercial Effects of Health Measures Applied to Mercosur Meat Exports," by Professor Juan Labraga, was selected in the IDB-INTAL and Red Sur call for projects, which received 65 research proposals, of which four were selected.
The study proposes an identification strategy to quantify the positive and negative trade effects of technical requirements and sanitary and phytosanitary standards on Latin American countries, and applies this strategy to the case of beef.
The study finds that foot-and-mouth disease has a negative effect, while the non-use of growth-promoting hormones has a positive effect.