Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data

Dennis Novy

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: Barriers to international trade are known to be large. But have they become smaller over time? Building on the gravity framework by Anderson and van Wincoop (2003), I derive an analytical solution for time-varying multilateral resistance variables that can be related to observable trade data. This solution makes it possible to infer time-varying bilateral trade costs directly from the model's gravity equation without imposing arbitrary trade cost functions. As an illustration, I show that U.S. trade costs with major trading partners declined on average by about 40 percent between 1970 and 2000, with Mexico and Canada experiencing the biggest reductions.

Keywords: Trade Costs; Gravity; Multilateral Resistance; Panel Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2008
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