The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I investigate whether exports are in fact systematically associated with diplomatic representation abroad. I use a recent cross-section of data covering 22 large exporters and 200 import destinations. Bilateral exports rise by approximately six to ten per cent for each additional consulate abroad, controlling for a host of other features including reverse causality. The effect varies by exporter, and is non-linear; consulates have smaller effects than the creation of an embassy. Copyright 2007 Blackwell Publishers Ltd (a Blackwell Publishing Company).
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2007
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Authors: | Rose, Andrew K. |
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The World Economy. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 30.2007, 1, p. 22-38
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Wiley Blackwell |
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