Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25943 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1898
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
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.
JEL: 
F12
F13
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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