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American Economic Review, 2008 What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past century and a half? Was it changes in global output or in the costs of international trade? To address this question, we derive a micro-founded measure of aggregate bilateral trade costs based on a
Christopher M Meissner +3 more
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Trade booms, trade busts and trade costs [PDF]
, 2010 What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows ...
Jacks, David S. (David Steven) +2 more
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Trade Costs and Trade Composition [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 In this paper, we investigate whether countries' trade costs act like other national endowments by affecting the composition of countries' exports. Using an econometric approach that controls for endogeneity by accounting for potentially relevant omitted variables, we find strong evidence for a sample of 37 industrialized and transition countries that ...
Danny McGowan, Chris Milner
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Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs [PDF]
Journal of International Economics, 2009 What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We employ a micro-founded measure of trade frictions consistent with leading trade theories to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of bilateral trade flows for 130 country pairs across the Americas,
David S. Jacks +2 more
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Rising trade costs? Agglomeration and trade with endogenous transaction costs [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008 Abstract. While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs that seeks to replicate features from the machinery industry, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of ...
Duranton, Gilles, Storper, Michael
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Import Processing and Trade Costs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 We estimate import processing costs based on the time it takes to import. Our theory extends existing time-cost measures to account for uncertainty in import processing. We use detailed, highly disaggregated data on import processing dates and import values to provide evidence for our theory and estimate processing costs consistent with the theory. The
Jerónimo Carballo +3 more
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Trade, Trust and Transaction Costs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the "mystery of missing trade" can be ...
Frank A.G. den Butter, Robert H.J. Mosch
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IMPLICATIONS OF AN INFRASTRUCTURE CORRIDOR FOR ALBERTA’S ECONOMY
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2021 The benefits of increased pipeline access for Alberta’s economy are well known. The benefits of infrastructure corridors, however, go far beyond pipelines.
Trevor Tombe +2 more
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How New Economic Geography Explains Provincial Wage Disparities: Generalised Methods of Moments Approach [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2019 In recent years, new and promising developments have made new economic geography (NEG) a popular framework for examining the spatial distribution of economic activity around the world.
Hien Th anh Hoang +2 more
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EMPLOYEE COSTS OF DISTRIBUTION TRADE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND SERBIA [PDF]
Business Excellence and Management, 2022 The issue of distribution trade cost analysis is continuously topical, significant and complex. Due to the fact that costs, in addition to sales revenue, affect the realization of the target profit in the distribution trade, it is necessary to manage ...
Lukic Radojko
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