Barriers to Exit

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta () and Alberto Chong

No 1589, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a cross-section of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain explanations do explain high barriers to exit. However, institutional and cultural hypotheses do not appear to be empirically robust explanations of such high barriers. Our findings hold when applying instrumental variables, changes in specification, and changes in cross-country periods.

Keywords: WP-572 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-08
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