Time barrier to export for OECD countries

Wenchao Li

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 175, issue C, 106-112

Abstract: Behind-the-border time delays due to administrative procedures represent a significant barrier to export. Guided by a Ricardian framework, this paper studies the effect of such delays on exports among OECD countries, and how the effect differs across manufacturing sectors. Results show that time delays hinder exports, particularly in more time-sensitive sectors. With a ten-percent export-delay reduction, sectoral exports would increase by 2.3–6.2 percent, and total manufacturing exports would increase by 4.3 percent. The magnitude of the export effect depends on sectoral time sensitivity, with more time-sensitive sectors having a larger effect.

Keywords: Time barrier; Sectoral export; Gravity equation; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.10.019

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