Short Run Gravity

James E. Anderson () and Yoto Yotov
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James E. Anderson: Boston College, Postal: Department of Economics,, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
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No 2017-8, School of Economics Working Paper Series from LeBow College of Business, Drexel University

Abstract: Short run gravity is a geometric weighted average of long run gravity and bilateral capacity. The model features (i) joint trade costs endogenous to bilateral volumes, (ii) long run gravity as a limiting case of efficient investment in bilateral capacities, (iii) a structural ratio of short run to long run trade elasticities equal to a micro-founded buyers' incidence elasticity, and (iv) tractable short and long run models of the extensive margin. Application to manufacturing trade of 52 countries during the globalization period 1988-2006 strongly supports the model. Results solve several time invariance and trade elasticity puzzles in the literature.

Keywords: trade elasticity puzzles; export dynamics; missing globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 77 pages
Date: 2017-05-23
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