Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/194216 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 178
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper provides Monte Carlo simulation evidence on the performance of methods used for identifying the effects of non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) variables in structural gravity models (SGM). The benchmarked methods include the identification strategy of Heid, Larch & Yotov (2015) that utilizes data on intra-national trade flows and three other methods that do not rely on this data. Results indicate that under the assumption of a data generating process that conforms with SGM theory, data on intra-national trade flows is required for identification. The bias of the three methods that do not utilize this data, is a result of the correlation between the NDTP variable and the collinear fixed effects. The MC results and an empirical application demonstrate the severity of this bias in methods that have been applied in previous empirical research.
Subjects: 
Structural Gravity Model
Non-discriminatory Trade Policies
Monte Carlo Simulation
JEL: 
C31
F10
F13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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