The Extensive Margin of International Trade in a Transition Economy: The Case of Mongolia

Chingunjav Amarsanaa () and Yoshinori Kurokawa
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Chingunjav Amarsanaa: The Bank of Mongolia

Comparative Economic Studies, 2021, vol. 63, issue 4, No 6, 648-673

Abstract: Abstract Using the Kehoe and Ruhl (J Polit Econ 121(2):358–392, 2013) methodology, we investigate whether the variety of traded goods, which is the extensive margin of trade, has actually changed in a transition economy, such as Mongolia, as predicted by recent theoretical models. Answering this question would be interesting especially for the transition economies that still have an observer status in the World Trade Organization (WTO). We find large increases in the extensive margin of Mongolia’s trade with 10 major trade partners from 1997 to 2002, when Mongolia was undergoing significant structural reforms. We also find further increases in the extensive margin for Mongolia–China and Mongolia–the main EU trade partners after trade liberalizations due to China’s accession to the WTO (2001) and Mongolia’s eligibility for the EU Generalized Systems of Preferences (GSP+) scheme (2005). We, however, find no or relatively small further increases in the extensive margin for the Mongolia–Russia pair during the period 2002–2007, when there was no major change in the trade regime of these two countries. Our robustness checks indicate that methodologies other than that of Kehoe and Ruhl’s overstate the extensive margin growth in Mongolia with small trade relationships.

Keywords: Mongolia; Transition economies; Extensive margin; Structural change; Trade liberalization; Business cycles; Small trade relationships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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