Working paper
Intra-national Trade Costs [electronic resource]: Measurement and Aggregation
2014
Abstract
We develop and apply a procedure to flexibly estimate intra-national border barriers and intra-regional trade costs. Bilateral border barriers very significantly depress Canadian inter-provincial trade for some pairs, though the overall effect is rather small. Bilateral distance imposes much larger inter-provincial trade costs. Contiguity between provinces accounts for little. Intra-regional trade cost variation affects relative bilateral costs and trade flows, and alters comparative statics except in a neutral case rejected by the data. Consistent trade cost aggregation procedures are developed and applied for groups of regions and/or sectors.
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- Title
- Intra-national Trade Costs [electronic resource]: Measurement and Aggregation
- Creators
- Delina E AgnostevaJames E AndersonYoto V YotovNational Bureau of Economic Research
- Series
- NBER working paper series
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014
- Resource Type
- Working paper
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Other Identifier
- 991021807110804721