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dc.contributor.authorLawless, Martinaen
dc.contributor.authorWhelan, Karlen
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-16T13:35:56Z-
dc.date.available2010-12-16T13:35:56Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/43366-
dc.description.abstractOne of the most famous and robust findings in international economics is that distance has a strong negative effect on trade. Bernard, Jensen, Redding, and Schott (2007) discuss how this can be decomposed into an effect due to the number of products and an effect due to average exports per product. Using US firm-level data, they show that distance has a strong negative effect on the number of products exported. However, they find that the intensive margin-average sales of individual products-is increasing with distance. We show that this apparently puzzling finding is consistent with models featuring firm heterogeneity in productivity and fixed costs associated with exporting to each market. We also show how evidence of this type can be used to derive new estimates of how distance affects fixed and variable trade costs and how these two costs combine to generate the distance effect on trade.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity College Dublin, UCD School of Economics |cDublinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aUCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series |xWP07/16en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.stwRäumliche Verteilungen
dc.subject.stwTransaktionskostenen
dc.subject.stwGravitationsmodellen
dc.subject.stwAußenwirtschaften
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleA note on trade costs and distance-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn557447690en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:ucn:wpaper:200716en

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