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The Size of Terroir: A Theoretical Note on Economics and Politics of Geographical Indications
Author(s) -
Deconinck Koen,
Swinnen Jo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/1477-9552.12407
Subject(s) - terroir , politics , incentive , product (mathematics) , government (linguistics) , public economics , positive economics , information economics , economics , regional science , certification , geography , microeconomics , political science , law , mathematics , management , linguistics , philosophy , physics , geometry , wine , optics
Geographical indications (GI) certify the geographical origins of a product and delineate the specific area in which the certified product must be produced. Despite a large literature on the economics of GIs, few papers have explored the question of the optimal size of GI regions. This note presents a flexible conceptual framework to explore the economics and politics of the delimitation of a GI. The general framework describes the efficiency and distributional effects of the size of a GI and shows how this affects interest groups’ incentives to influence government decision‐making.