Dark Costs, Missing Data: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade

James Anderson, Ingo Borchert, Aaditya Mattoo and Yoto Yotov

No 2015-6, School of Economics Working Paper Series from LeBow College of Business, Drexel University

Abstract: A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical implementation sheds light on the role of institutions, geography, size and digital infrastructure as determinants of border barriers. We find that border barriers have generally fallen over time but there are differences across sectors and countries. Notably, border effects for the smallest economies have remained stable, giving rise to a divergent pattern across countries.

Keywords: Gravity; Services Trade; Trade Costs in Services; Home Bias; Border e ffects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 F16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 pages
Date: 2015-10-12
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