Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121140 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 137
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on export diversification, as measured by two extensive margins: the number of products exported by destination and the number of export destinations served by product. To address the issue of causality, we employ an identification strategy whereby only exports of new products, or exports to new destinations, are taken inton account when computing the respective margins of trade. We find a positive impact of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. The results are robust to alternative definitions of extensive margins, different sets of controls and various estimation methods. Simulation results suggest substantial extensive margin gains from trade facilitation reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Subjects: 
Trade facilitation
Export diversification
International trade agreements
WTO
JEL: 
F13
F14
F17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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