Arbeitspapier

Does WTO membership make a difference at the extensive margin of world trade?

In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not play a strong role in encouraging trade. Rose looks at countries where the amount of trade was positive to start with (intensive margin). In this paper, we present a corner-solutions version of the gravity model of bilateral trade which explains zero trade and leaves room for WTO membership to promote trade at the extensive margin of trade. Relying on a Tobit estimation approach, we find that WTO membership has promoted world trade to a larger extent than Rose's results seem to indicate.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1898

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Thema
WTO-Beitritt
Außenwirtschaft
Weltwirtschaft
Schätzung
Welt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Felbermayr, Gabriel
Kohler, Wilhelm K.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2007

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Felbermayr, Gabriel
  • Kohler, Wilhelm K.
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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