Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 2, pp. 453-487
Structural quantitative work in international economics typically models trade costs as a log-linear function of exogenous trade-policy variables. We propose a structural approach that allows for a nonparametric relationship and for treating tariff and nontariff trade-policy variables as...