Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125932
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 2016
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in consumption goods, capital goods, and intermediates. Our major findings prove to be robust to various modifications and extensions of the gravity model. Importantly, we still observe significant and non-linear effects of infrastructure on bilateral trade after accounting for potential reverse causality.
Subjects: 
trade
infrastructure
transport
ICT
energy
finance
JEL: 
F14
O18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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