Border Effect or Country Effect?: Seattle May Not Be so Far from Vancouver after All
Border Effect or Country Effect?: Seattle May Not Be so Far from Vancouver after All
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边境效应还是国家效应？：西雅图可能离温哥华并不远
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.800535
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2005
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L. Tesar
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作者：
Y. Gorodnichenko;L. Tesar
本文重新审视了边界效应的证据。我们认为，如果有跨国异质性的分布在国内的价格差异，没有明确的基准来衡量边界的影响。在没有结构模型或（自然）实验的情况下，不可能将“边界”效应与同价格分布不同的国家进行贸易的效应分开。我们表明，Engel和Rogers（1996）确定的边界效应完全是由美国和加拿大内部价格分布的差异驱动的。(JEL F11、F14）
This paper reexamines the evidence on the border effect. We argue that if there is cross-country heterogeneity in the distribution of within-country price differentials, there is no clear benchmark from which to gauge the effect of a border. In the absence of a structural model or a (natural) experiment, it is impossible to separate the "border" effect from the effect of trading with a country with a different distribution of prices. We show that the border effect identified by Engel and Rogers (1996) is entirely driven by the difference in the distribution of prices within the United States and Canada. (JEL F11, F14)