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Gravity-Model Estimation with Time-Interval Data : Revisiting the Impact of Free Trade Agreements
Egger, Peter - 2020
We challenge the common practice of estimating gravity equations with time-interval data in order to capture dynamic-adjustment effects to trade-policy changes. Instead, we point to a series of advantages of using consecutive-year data recognizing dynamic-adjustment effects. Our analysis reveals...
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On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare : New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2019
Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866418
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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...
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Estimating Gravity from the Short to the Long Run : A Simple Solution to the ‘International Elasticity Puzzle’
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2023
We propose a simple and flexible reduced-form econometric approach to estimate gravity models in the short and the long run. The theoretical lens for interpreting our methods amends the canonical Lucas-Prescott adjustment formulation to allow for time-interval-varying...
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274453
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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade
Fazio, Giorgio; MacDonald, Ronald; Melitz, Jacques - 2005
In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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Pound for Pound Export Diversification
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
We propose a short-run model of the extensive margin of trade and deploy it to distinguish and quantify domestic and cross-border margins. Our empirical focus is on the domestic extensive margin of trade (domestic distribution of a product) and its importance for quantifying policy and...
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Asset Level Heterogeneity, Competition and Export Incentives : The Role of Credit Rationing
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
Firm heterogeneity is mostly discussed in the literature from the viewpoint of productivity differential. In contrast this paper recognizes wealth heterogeneity as an important factor that results in firm heterogeneity. The issue of wealth heterogeneity and export incentive through credit market...
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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade policy changes in the United States (US) to address this question. The expansion of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) products for less developed countries in 1997 and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866374
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IO for Export(s)
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858197