Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data

Dennis Novy

No 3616, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Barriers to international trade are known to be large but due to data limitations it is hard to measure them directly for a large number of countries over many years. To address this problem I derive a micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from observable trade data. I show that this trade cost measure is consistent with a broad range of leading trade theories including Ricardian and heterogeneous firms models. In an application I show that U.S. trade costs with major trading partners declined on average by about 40 percent between 1970 and 2000, with Mexico and Canada experiencing the biggest reductions.

Keywords: trade costs; gravity; multilateral resistance; Ricardian trade; heterogeneous firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: GRAVITY REDUX: MEASURING INTERNATIONAL TRADE COSTS WITH PANEL DATA (2013)
Working Paper: Gravity redux: measuring international trade costs with panel data (2013)
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Working Paper: Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data (2011)
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