Who Profits from Trade Facilitation Initiatives?

Ben Shepherd
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Bernard Hoekman

No 9490, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation?measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within nations. After discussing the possible impacts of trade facilitation, we use firm-level data for a wide variety of developing countries to investigate whether it is mostly large firms that benefit from trade facilitation. We find that firms of all sizes export more in response to improved trade facilitation. Our results suggest that trade facilitation can be beneficial in a range of countries, including those that are primarily involved in value chains as suppliers.

Keywords: Developing countries; Firm-level data; Global value chains; Logistics; Supply chains; Trade costs; Trade facilitation; Wto (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05
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