全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP3738 Indirect Network Effects and Adoption Externalities

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP3738
	DP3738 Indirect Network Effects and Adoption Externalities
	Neil Gandal; Jeffrey Church; David Krause
发表日期	2003-02-23
出版年	2003
语种	英语
摘要	McCallum (1995) shows in an influential contribution that, even when controlling for the impact of bilateral distance and region size, borders sharply reduce trade volumes between countries. We use in this Paper data on bilateral trade flows between 94 French regions, for 10 industries and two years (1978 and 1993) to study the magnitude and variations over time of trade impediments, both distance-related and (administrative) border-related. We focus on assessing the role that business and social networks can play in shaping trade patterns and explaining the border effect puzzle. Using a structural econometric approach, we show that intranational administrative borders significantly affect trade patterns inside France. The impact is of the same order of magnitude as in Wolf (2000) for trade inside the United States. We show that more than 60% of these (puzzling) intranational border effects can be explained by the composition of local labour force in terms of birth place (social networks) and by inter-plants connections (business networks). In addition, controlling for these network effects reduces the impact of transport cost on trade flows by a comparable factor. Thus, business and social networks that help to reduce informational trade barriers are shown to be strong determinants of trade patterns and to explain a large part of the border puzzle.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Gravity Border effects Networks
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp3738
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/532744
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Neil Gandal,Jeffrey Church,David Krause. DP3738 Indirect Network Effects and Adoption Externalities. 2003.