A note on dummies for policies in gravity models: a Montecarlo experiment

Maria Cipollina, Luca Salvatici (), Luca De Benedictis () and Claudio Vicarelli

No 180, Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre' from Department of Economics - University Roma Tre

Abstract: The use of the gravity model to evaluate the effect of policies in a cross-country framework is largely predominant in the international economics empirical literature. This literature usually implements importer and exporter fixed effects to account for the theoretical Multilateral Trade Resistances, while preferential trade policies are approximated through the use of dummy variables. Results from a Monte Carlo experiment confirms that the identification of trade policy im pact using a gravity equation including fixed effects is severely limited. Moreover, the consequences of the error in measurement of the policy variable are magnified by the fixed effects control for unobserved heterogeneity.

Keywords: Gravity model; Policy evaluation; Monte Carlo A nalysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C14 F10 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09
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