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International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - CESifo - 2009

trade barriers for manufacturing industries in European Union countries between 1999 and 2003. We find a large degree of … trade cost heterogeneity across industries. The most important trade barriers are transportation costs and policy factors …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051566

Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data

Novy, Dennis - CESifo - 2011

Barriers to international trade are known to be large but due to data limitations it is hard to measure them directly for a large number of countries over many years. To address this problem I derive a micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351468

Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade

Coughlin, Cletus C.; Novy, Dennis - CESifo - 2009

Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders compare to domestic border barriers? We investigate international and domestic border barriers in a unified framework. We consider a unique data set of exports from individual...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583687

FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union

Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167

Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877639

International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

Novy, Dennis - CESifo - 2010

This paper derives a micro-founded gravity equation in general equilibrium based on a translog demand system that … allows for endogenous markups and substitution patterns across goods. In contrast to standard CES-based gravity equations …. I test the translog gravity equation and find strong empirical support in its favor. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596576

Turkish Delight for Some, Cold Turkey for Others?: The Effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2005

Following Turkey’s application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094267

Sectoral Trade Freeness and Agglomeration in the EU: An Empirical Test Strategy

Cafiso, Gianluca - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the evolution of trade freeness and of the agglomeration of production, as well as their relationship, at the sectoral level in a group of EU countries. Our main objective is to test at the sectoral level the conclusions of previous aggregate analyses which find that an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877933

Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs

Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - CESifo - 2009

What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013944

Trade Agreements

Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2009

This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979401

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