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Intra-national trade costs: Assaying regional frictions
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Intra-national trade costs: Assaying regional frictions

Delina E. Agnosteva, James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov
European economic review, v 112, pp 32-50
Feb 2019

Abstract

Border frictions Canada Intra-regional and inter-regional Frictions Unexplained trade barriers
The effects of intra-regional, inter-regional and international frictions on the trade flows of Canada’s provinces are disentangled by gravity model techniques. Unexplained Trade Barriers (UTBs) are the difference between inter-provincial trade barriers inferred from pair fixed effects and from bilateral distance and contiguity. The estimates reveal large intra-national trade costs and UTBs that vary significantly across Canada’s provinces. Decomposition of UTBs into relative border effects and a systematic residual UTB is based on a novel Cobb–Douglas aggregator of intra-provincial and pure inter-provincial trade costs. Variation of both components across provinces is big.

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