TY - CONF A1 - Mangelsdorf, Axel A1 - Portugal-Perez, A. A1 - Wilson, J. S. ED - Fomin, V. ED - Jakobs, K. T1 - Food standards and exports: evidence for China T2 - EURAS Proceedings 2011 - Standards for development N2 - Using a new database on Standards in China, we estimate the impact of voluntaiy and mandatory Standards - either harmonized to international norms or purely domestic — on Chinese food exports. The data covers seven Chinese products over the period 1992-2008. We find that Standards have a positive effect on China's export performance, as the benefits to Standardization in terms of reducing potential Information asymmetiy and signaling enhance food safety and quality in foreign markets seem to surpass compliance costs. Our estimation results Show that the positive effect of Chinese Standards is larger when they are harmonized to international measures. The results suggest that there are clear benefits to China’s Steps to base their domestic Standards and regulations on international measures. T2 - 16th EURAS Annual standardisation conference - Standards for development CY - Kaunas, Lithuania DA - 08.06.2011 KW - Food standards KW - Trade barriers KW - SPS KW - TBT KW - Harmonization PY - 2011 SN - 3-86130-629-8 SP - 219 EP - 233 PB - Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz CY - Aachen AN - OPUS4-25501 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -