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developing countries. Our empirical approach combines transaction level export data from El Salvador with unique data that … distinguishes export flows that were processed on the transit system. Our results indicate that the new transit system lowered …
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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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In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and … learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the entire universe of Peru's export transactions over the … period 1999-2014 including both regular shipments and postal shipments. We find that the new export mode has been associated …
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We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and the "hard" effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator variables for...
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The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of traded quantities and trade unit values to agricultural production shocks. We develop a general equilibrium model of trade in which production shocks in exporting countries affect both traded quantities and trade unit values. The model...
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