Dark Costs, Missing Data: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade

Arbeitspapier

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical implementation sheds light on the role of institutions, geography, size and digital infrastructure as determinants of border barriers. We find that border barriers have generally fallen over time but there are differences across sectors and countries. Notably, border effects for the smallest economies have remained stable, giving rise to a divergent pattern across countries.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5577

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions
• Subject: gravity ; services trade ; trade costs in services ; home bias ; border effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Anderson, James E. ; Borchert, Ingo ; Mattoo, Aaditya ; Yotov, Yoto V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/123229
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET