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with stores in the United States and Canada. They develop a model of pricing by location and employ a regression …
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stores in the U.S. and Canada. We develop a model of pricing by location and employ a regression discontinuity approach to … discontinuity between adjacent stores on either side of the U.S.-Canada border is as high as 21%. In contrast, within-country border … the U.S.-Canada nominal exchange rate. We show these facts suggest that the price gaps we estimate provide only a lower …
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stores in the U.S. and Canada. We develop a model of pricing by location and employ a regression discontinuity approach to … discontinuity between adjacent stores on either side of the U.S.-Canada border is as high as 21%. In contrast, within-country border … the U.S.-Canada nominal exchange rate. We show these facts suggest that the price gaps we estimate provide only a lower …
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We examine transaction-level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the transaction level, we observe the time it takes a shipment to clear each step in the entry process. Our theory shows conditions under which observed entry times...
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effects literatures. Our estimation results show a remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East …
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The study aims to analyze the border effects on intra-African trade through the use of a gravity specification based on the monopolistic competition model of trade introduced by Krugman (1980). The study used CEPII data on trade flows between African countries over the period 1980-2006. We...
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This paper identifies a “border” effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1 to 51.3 percent lower than trade within both country parts, is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural...
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National borders reduce trade, but most estimates of the border effect seem puzzlingly large. We show that major methodological innovations of the last decade combine to shrink the border effect to a mere 28% reduction in international trade flows worldwide. The border effect varies across...
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