Border Effects Without Borders: What Divides Japan's Internal Trade?

Arbeitspapier

This paper identifies a “border” effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1 to 51.3 percent lower than trade within both country parts, is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural differences or past civil wars. Post-war agglomeration processes, reflected by the contemporaneous structure of Japan’s business and social networks, rather than cultural differences, induced by long-lasting historical shocks, are identified as an explanation for the east-west bias in intra-Japanese trade.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7056

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Economic Integration ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
• Thema: border effects ; gravity equation ; intra-national Trade ; Japan

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Wrona, Jens
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/180318
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ