Intangible Barriers to International Trade: A Sectoral Approach

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This paper studies the importance of intangible barriers to trade in explaining variation in disaggregate international trade. The analysis is based on a sample of 55 countries for the year 2000. We explicitly focus on the importance of institutional and cultural dimensions of distance. Our results reveal there is substantial heterogeneity in the impact of intangible barriers for different product groups. More specifically, we find that cultural differences do not affect total trade significantly, whereas trade in homogeneous goods is significantly negatively affected. A possible explanation for this pattern is that the substitution effect between trade and FDI is stronger for more differentiated products.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 09-021/3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade
• Subject: bilateral trade ; gravity model ; intangible barriers ; cultural distance ; sectoral trade ; Nichttarifäre Handelshemmnisse ; Geographische Entfernung ; Intraindustrieller Handel ; Außenhandelsstruktur ; Gravitationsmodell ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Möhlmann, Jan ; Ederveen, Sjef ; de Groot, Henri L.F. ; Linders, Gert-Jan M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86986
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