| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP5124
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| DP5124 The Optimal Amount of Falsified Testimony |
| Winand Emons; Claude Fluet
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| 发表日期 | 2005-07-23
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| 出版年 | 2005
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | It is generally assumed that distance in the gravity model strictly reflects frictions impeding bilateral trade. However, distances North-South could also reflect differences in factor endowment that provide opportunities for profitable trade. This paper investigates the hypothesis that if we control for distance in the ordinary sense, differences North-South promote international trade. The hypothesis receives ample support. Moreover, the significance of differences North-South survives a battery of robustness tests, concerning period, distinctions between differences in latitude North-North, North-South and South-South, and controls for other measures of differences in factor endowment, such as differences in per capita output and differences in average temperature, rainfall, and seasonal range in temperature. The impact of differences North-South on bilateral trade has also been falling. This decline, in turn, might be partly responsible for the weakening of the influence of distance that has been occurring since World War II. This last hypothesis receives confirmation as well. Finally, the paper studies two country-specific aspects of distance: internal distance and remoteness. It does so by examining the impact of both on the country fixed effects themselves: that is, those that emerged earlier. Internal distance turns out to have a far greater impact than remoteness ? by an order of ten. |
| 主题 | International Macroeconomics
; International Trade and Regional Economics
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| 关键词 | Gravity
Bilateral trade
Distance
Remoteness
Comparative advantage
North-south trade
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5124
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534012
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Winand Emons,Claude Fluet. DP5124 The Optimal Amount of Falsified Testimony. 2005.
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