Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52476
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3616
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Barriers to international trade are known to be large but due to data limitations it is hard to measure them directly for a large number of countries over many years. To address this problem I derive a micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from observable trade data. I show that this trade cost measure is consistent with a broad range of leading trade theories including Ricardian and heterogeneous firms models. In an application I show that U.S. trade costs with major trading partners declined on average by about 40 percent between 1970 and 2000, with Mexico and Canada experiencing the biggest reductions.
Subjects: 
trade costs
gravity
multilateral resistance
Ricardian trade
heterogeneous firms
JEL: 
F10
F15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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