Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93838 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 402
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
Development accounting literature usually attributes the observed cross-country variation in per capita income to differences in countries' factor endowments and total factor productivity (the Solow residual). While the former can be relatively straightforward interpreted and measured, the latter remains at least partly a black box. In this paper, we provide a structural interpretation for differences in total factor productivity across countries and quantitatively explore the role of trade barriers in explaining cross-country income differences. In particular, we find that giving all countries the same market entry costs or giving all country-pairs the same variable trade costs reduces inequality by around 13%.
Subjects: 
General equilibrium
market access costs
development accounting
experiments
JEL: 
F11
F12
O10
O40
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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