작성일 2026-03-23

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안녕하세요, 경제학과 BK사무실입니다.
경제학과 BK21 교육연구단에서 아래와 같이 목요세미나를 개최합니다.
많은 참여 부탁드립니다.

- 일시 : 2026년 3월 26일 (목) 16:30 - 17:45
- 발표자 : 최재림 교수님 (연세대학교)

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

- 장소 : 다산경제관 32211호

- Abstract : 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 the 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 sector 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 quantities by over 100%. Incorporating tariff reductions as cost shifters into a structural 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 estimate the consequent increase of 2.58% in sugar intake attributable to trade liberalization. The findings highlight underexplored nutritional side effects of trade policy, under-scoring the importance of integrating health considerations into trade policy design.