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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1898
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
- Thema
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WTO-Beitritt
Außenwirtschaft
Weltwirtschaft
Schätzung
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Felbermayr, Gabriel
Kohler, Wilhelm K.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2007
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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