Export costs of visa restrictions

Natalia Kapelko and Natalya Volchkova ()
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Natalia Kapelko: New Economic School

No w0195, Working Papers from Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)

Abstract: The paper studies the role visa restrictions play in determining export flows between Russian firms and their partners and explores the mechanism of this relationship. The specification of empirical model is derived from a heterogeneous firms’ model of trade. The existing visa restrictions are used as proxies for the costs the exporters incur while dealing with customers abroad. The results indicate that visas have a negative market access effect. Controlling for the choice of destination, visas have a significant negative effect on the value of relationship-specific exports as well. These results are consistent with informational and contractual nature of visa costs.

Keywords: Heterogeneous firms; exports; visa restrictions; market access costs; extensive and intensive margins of trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F42 F55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2013-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-int and nep-tra
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