Who profits from trade facilitation initiatives?

Arbeitspapier

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation - measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within nations. After discussing the possible impacts of trade facilitation, we use firm-level data for a wide variety of developing countries to investigate whether it is mostly large firms that benefit from trade facilitation. We find that firms of all sizes export more in response to improved trade facilitation. Our results suggest that trade facilitation can be beneficial in a range of countries, including those that are primarily involved in value chains as suppliers.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ARTNeT Working Paper Series ; No. 129

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
• Thema: Trade facilitation ; trade costs ; WTO ; firm-level data ; developing countries ; global value chains ; supply chains

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hoekman, Bernard ; Shepherd, Ben
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT)
• (wo): Bangkok
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/103871
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ