Immigration, Trade Costs and Trade: Gravity Evidence for Greece
This paper investigates the influence of immigration into Greece on the volumes of Greeces bilateral trade using a gravity modelling approach. An augmented gravity model is estimated using a panel data set for the period 1981-1991. The results show that immigration had a positive impact on the volume of Greeces bilateral exports, but no effect on its bilateral imports. This is consistent with immigration reducing transactions or trading costs on Greeces exports.
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2003
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Authors: | S. Piperakis, Andromachi |
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Journal of Economic Integration. - Department of Economics and Trade. - Vol. 18.2003, p. 750-762
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Publisher: |
Department of Economics and Trade |
Subject: | Trade | migration | gravity models |
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