Trade Facilitation and Country Size

Mohammad Amin () and Jamal Haidar ()
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Mohammad Amin: World Bank - Enterprise Analysis Unit

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Abstract: It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the number of documents required to export and import, a measure of trade facilitation. Three important results follow. First, trade facilitation does improve as the country size becomes smaller; that is, small countries perform better than large countries in terms of trade facilitation. Second, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation is non-linear, much stronger for the relatively small than the large countries. Third, contrary to what the existing studies might suggest, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation does not appear to be driven by the fact that small countries trade more as a proportion of their GDP than the large countries.

Keywords: openness; Country size; trade facilitation; taille du pays; Facilités commerciales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
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Published in 2012

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