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| Title: | | Sorting it out: Technical barriers to trade and industry productivity  |
| Authors: | | Felbermayr, Gabriel J. Jung, Benjamin |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Tübinger Diskussionsbeitrag 315 |
| Abstract: | | Trade economists traditionally study the effect of lower variable trade costs. While increasingly important politically, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) have received less attention. Viewing TBTs as fixed regulatory costs related to the entry into export markets, we use a model with heterogeneous firms, trade in differentiated goods, and variable external economies of scale to sort out the rich interactions between TBT reform, input diversity, firm-level productivity, and aggregate productivity. We calibrate the model for 14 industries in order to clarify the theoretical ambiguities. Overall, our results tend to suggest beneficial effects of TBT reform but also reveal interesting sectoral variation. |
| Subjects: | | heterogeneous firms international trade single European market technical barriers to trade regulatory costs |
| JEL: | | F12 F13 F15 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-32484 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge, Universität Tübingen
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