Passport, please! Travels, travails and trade

Volker Nitsch

No 234, Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics from Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Law and Economics

Abstract: A country's visa policies are widely assumed to have economic consequences. In this short paper, I examine the effect of the ease with which a country's citizens can enter foreign countries on international trade. Using a specification of the gravity model that avoids the endogeneity problems that typically arise when analyzing the association between ease of travel and the extent of bilateral interactions, I find that countries which issue powerful passports experience more international trade.

Keywords: visa; document; mobility; border; barrier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F29 F59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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