Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/40320 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge No. 315
Publisher: 
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Tübingen
Abstract: 
Trade economists traditionally study the effect of lower variable trade costs. While increasingly important politically, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) have received less attention. Viewing TBTs as fixed regulatory costs related to the entry into export markets, we use a model with heterogeneous firms, trade in differentiated goods, and variable external economies of scale to sort out the rich interactions between TBT reform, input diversity, firm-level productivity, and aggregate productivity. We calibrate the model for 14 industries in order to clarify the theoretical ambiguities. Overall, our results tend to suggest beneficial effects of TBT reform but also reveal interesting sectoral variation.
Subjects: 
heterogeneous firms
international trade
single European market
technical barriers to trade
regulatory costs
JEL: 
F12
F13
F15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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