Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204488 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
LEAF Working Paper Series No. 19-04
Publisher: 
University of Lincoln, Lincoln International Business School, Lincoln Economics and Finance Research Group (LEAF), Lincoln
Abstract: 
The practice of trade cost measurement faces several challenges related to data quality, methodology and theory; but the major issue is that of data scarcity. Due to these facts both domestic and asymmetric trade costs have been ignored despite being a feature of modern trade models. This paper offers a two-step procedure to tackle these limitations and fill the gaps between theory and p ractice. The results of this work show that domestic trade costs proportionally grow with economic size, and that international trade costs are highly asymmetric especially when trading pair sizes differ. Counterfactual simulation results that ignore domestic frictions and adopt symmetric international trade cost measures show over-predicted welfare and trade changes as a response to policy shock in larger sized countries rather than smaller countries. After the proper treatment of trade costs in the simulation, results improve.
Subjects: 
trade costs
measurement
domestic frictions
asymmetric costs
international trade
gravity
trade policy simulations
JEL: 
F13
F14
F21
F40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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