The Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Export: A Gravity Model Approach

Fei Jia, Xiaoyong Huang, Xiangyun Xu and Haoyu Sun

Prague Economic Papers, 2020, vol. 2020, issue 5, 600-622

Abstract: We use a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance terms (MRT) to examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on a country's export. Empirical analysis based on data from 20 countries that traded with one another (creating 380 pairs of importing-exporting countries) over the period 2002-2016 shows that the export of a country is negatively associated with the EPU of its corresponding importing country, but not with the EPU of the exporting country itself. This effect remains qualitatively unchanged regardless whether the exporting country is a developed or a developing economy and whether it focuses on commodities or non-commodities, but the effect is smaller for commodity exporters. Furthermore, the observed negative effect is more pronounced when the unemployment rate in the importing country is high, whilst GDP growth in the importing country does not influence the focal relationship. These findings advance the literature by highlighting the importance of accounting for the differential effects of policy uncertainty in importing and exporting countries and of taking into consideration country and product heterogeneity when analysing the effects of EPU on exports.

Keywords: Economic policy uncertainty; international trade; importing; exporting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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