Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260058 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2012:33
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
Recent literature suggests that product characteristics assert different distance sensitivity on trade flows. But the empirical evidences still find conflicting results. Previous studies have examined the effect of distance on the export decisions across different product groups at the aggregate level. In this paper the analyses are executed at a disaggregated firm-product level to examine the issue based on individual firm's decisions. Empirically, I employ a gravity model on Swedish micro-level export data in the manufacturing sector. The results suggest that homogeneous products are more sensitive to distance than differentiated products for the export selection and are insignificant for the export intensity.
Subjects: 
distance sensitivity
export decisions
gravity model
micro-data
JEL: 
F12
F14
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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