GRAVITY REDUX: MEASURING INTERNATIONAL TRADE COSTS WITH PANEL DATA
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Abstract
Barriers to international trade are known to be large but because of data limitations it is hard to measure them directly for a large number of countries over many years. To address this problem, I derive a micro‐founded measure of bilateral trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from observable trade data. I show that this trade cost measure is consistent with a broad range of leading trade theories including Ricardian and heterogeneous firms models. In an application I show that U.S. trade costs with major trading partners declined on average by about 40 between 1970 and 2000, with Mexico and Canada experiencing the biggest reductions . ( JEL F10, F15)
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The record
- Venue
- Economic Inquiry
- Topic
- Global trade and economics
- Field
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Canadian institutions
- —
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research CouncilUniversity of WarwickLondon School of Economics and Political Science
- Keywords
- EconomicsReduxMeasure (data warehouse)Panel dataGravity model of tradeTrade barrierBilateral tradeInternational economicsInternational tradeGravity equationEconometricsComputer scienceGeography
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- yes