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- 일시: 2026년 3월 26일(목) 16:30 - 17:45

- 장소: 다산경제관 32211호

- 발표자: 최재림 교수님

발표제목: Cross-border Threats to Health: Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Nutritional Transition

초록: This paper examines the nutritional and health implications of trade liberalization in the food sector, using South Korea's free trade agreements(FTAs) with the European Union and United States in the early 2010s as a natural experiment. We document that imports of unhealthy food products from FTA partners increased relative to non-FTA origins, with tariff reductions in the food secter fully passed through to domesticprices. Leveraging a novel product-brand scanner dataset for the Korean chocolate market, we find that FTA-induced tariff cuts reduced imported chocolate prices by approximately 16% and raised purchase quatities by over 100%. Incorporationg tariff reductions as cost shifters into a structrural demand-supply framework, we structurally estimate demand and cost parameters and conduct counterfactual simulations to assess substitution patterns between domestic and foreign products in the absence of tariff cuts. Combining these results with detailed nutritional information, we scoring the importance of integrating health considerations into trade policy design.