Working paper
Dark Costs, Missing Data [electronic resource]: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade
2015
Abstract
A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical implementation sheds light on the role of institutions, geography, size and digital infrastructure as determinants of border barriers. We find that border barriers have generally fallen over time but there are differences across sectors and countries. Notably, border effects for the smallest economies have remained stable, giving rise to a divergent pattern across countries.
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- Title
- Dark Costs, Missing Data [electronic resource]: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade
- Creators
- James E AndersonIngo BorchertAaditya MattooYoto V YotovNational Bureau of Economic Research
- Series
- NBER working paper series
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015
- Resource Type
- Working paper
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Other Identifier
- 991021807010104721