De Sousa, José; Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2012
This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of countries (both developing and developed) and industries, during the period 1980-2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional...