Arbeitspapier
Trade Facilitation and the Extensive Margin
The literature on trade facilitation has mostly focused on implications for trade volumes. However, recent theoretical contributions have emphasized that trade costs - such as transaction costs related to cross-border trade procedures - affect both the traded volumes of "old" goods (the intensive margin) and the range of traded goods (the extensive margin). This paper therefore tests whether trade facilitation affects the extensive margin by counting the number of 8-digit products that are exported from developing to EU countries, and using this as the dependent variable in an estimation. Moreover, it also tests whether the extensive margins in differentiated and homogeneous goods are affected in the same way by transaction costs. Estimation results suggest that if export transaction costs - proxied by the number of days needed to export a good - declined by 1 per cent, the number of exported differentiated and homogeneous products would rise by 0.7 and 0.4 per cent respectively. Policy simulations further illustrate that if all countries were as efficient at the border as the most efficient country at the same level of development, the number of exported differentiated and homogeneous products would increase by 64 and 29 per cent respectively.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 828
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
- Thema
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Trade Facilitation
Extensive Margin
Export Diversification
Differentiated Products
Homogeneous Products
European Union
Developing Countries
Handelsliberalisierung
Exportdiversifizierung
Transportkosten
Entwicklungsländer
EU-Staaten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Persson, Maria
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (wo)
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Stockholm
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Persson, Maria
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Entstanden
- 2010
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