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Intangible barriers to international trade : a sectoral approach

Möhlmann, Jan L.; Ederveen, Sjef; Groot, Henri L. F. de; … - 2009

This paper studies the importance of intangible barriers to trade in explaining variation in disaggregate international trade. The analysis is based on a sample of 55 countries for the year 2000. We explicitly focus on the importance of institutional and cultural dimensions of distance. Our...

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Why do OECD-countries trade more?

Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

Ineffective institutions increase transaction costs and reduce trade. This paper shows that differences in the effectiveness of institutions offer an explanation for the tendency of OECD countries to trade disproportionately with each other, and with non-OECD countries.

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Institutional determinants of bilateral trade : an analysis according to product type

Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Rietveld, Piet - 2005

Formal trade barriers and transport costs explain only part of the resistance to international trade. Search costs on the international market and insecurity of property rights and contract enforcement have recently been emphasized as important intangible barriers to trade. This paper proposes...

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Estimation of the gravity equation in the presence of zero flows

Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2006

The gravity model is the workhorse model to describe and explain variation in bilateral trade patterns. Consistent with both Heckscher-Ohlin models and models of imperfect competition and trade, this versatile model has proven to be very successful, explaining a large part of the variance in...

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Product heterogeneity, intangible barriers and distance decay : the effect of multiple dimensions of distance on trade across different product categories

Lankhuizen, Maureen B. M.; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, … - 2012

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Trade policy options of Ukraine : East or West

Mikolajun, Irena; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie; … - 2016

implementation of which is conditional on the quality of governance and infrastructure. The evaluation of these policy choices gains … membership, governance and effective distance (corrected for infrastructure). Using scenario analyses we assess counterfactuals … for Ukraine and find, for example, that improved infrastructure would on average lead to a 22% increase in Ukrainian …

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Impact of mobile phones on staple food markets in Mozambique : improved arbitrage or increased rent extraction?

Zant, Wouter - 2017

I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...

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Mobile phones and Mozambique traders : what is the size of reduced search costs and who benefits?

Zant, Wouter - 2019

We investigate to what extent the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique reduced transport costs and search costs, and thereby decreased spatial price dispersion and improved market efficiency. Estimations are based on data of transport costs of maize grain and maize market prices....

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Bridges

Zant, Wouter - 2017

We estimate to what extent bridges in Mozambique lead to transport cost reductions and attribute these reductions to key determinants, in particular road distance, road quality and crossing borders. For identification we exploit the introduction of a road bridge over the Zambezi river, in August...

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Mobile phones and Mozambique farmers : less asymmetric information and more trader competition?

Zant, Wouter - 2018

We measure the impact of search costs on farmers' and traders' transaction prices in Mozambique by investigating to what extent the introduction of mobile phones has affected the margin between recorded maize producer and retail market prices, and by exploring if producers or traders benefit...

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