Dark Costs, Missing Data: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade

James Anderson, Ingo Borchert, Aaditya Mattoo and Yoto Yotov

No 21546, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical implementation sheds light on the role of institutions, geography, size and digital infrastructure as determinants of border barriers. We find that border barriers have generally fallen over time but there are differences across sectors and countries. Notably, border effects for the smallest economies have remained stable, giving rise to a divergent pattern across countries.

JEL-codes: F10 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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Published as James E. Anderson & Ingo Borchert & Aaditya Mattoo & Yoto V. Yotov, 2018. "Dark Costs, Missing Data: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade," European Economic Review, .

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