Revisiting McCallum's Border Puzzle

Galina An and Thitima Puttitanun
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Galina An: Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

Economic Development Quarterly, 2009, vol. 23, issue 2, 167-170

Abstract: The “border effect†in international trade refers to a situation in which there is higher volume of trade within a country compared with the volume of trade across the country's borders. Although trade economists are not surprised at the existence of a border effect, they do find the significant size of the estimated effect in the empirical literature perplexing. In this study we authors show why previous empirical studies have had an upwards bias in the estimation of the border effect. The study also provides more reasonable estimates of McCallum's estimated border effect in United States—Canada trade.

Keywords: border effect; international trade; Poisson pseudomaximum likelihood; OLS; gravity equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0891242408328604

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