The Tip of the Iceberg: A Quantitative Framework for Estimating Trade Costs
The Tip of the Iceberg: A Quantitative Framework for Estimating Trade Costs
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冰山一角：估算贸易成本的定量框架
DOI：
10.1162/rest_a_00517
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
8
通讯作者：
Luca David Opromolla
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作者：
Alfonso A. Irarrazabal;Andreas Moxnes;Luca David Opromolla
摘要 贸易成本往往是累加性的。众所周知的例子是配额、单位关税以及部分运输成本。尽管如此，我们没有广泛且系统的证据来证明这些成本的规模。在本文中，我们开发了一个新的实证框架，用于根据标准企业级贸易数据估算附加贸易成本。我们的结果表明，相对于中位价格而言，附加壁垒平均为 14%。点估计与贸易成本的常见代理密切相关。通过我们的微观估计，我们发现附加进口关税比等收益乘数关税对福利和贸易的减少幅度更大。
Abstract Trade costs are often additive. Well-known examples are quotas, per unit tariffs, and, in part, transportation costs. In spite of this, we have no broad and systematic evidence of the magnitude of these costs. In this paper, we develop a new empirical framework for estimating additive trade costs from standard firm-level trade data. Our results suggest that additive barriers are on average 14%, expressed relative to the median price. The point estimates are strongly correlated with common proxies for trade costs. Using our microestimates, we show that an additive import tariff reduces welfare and trade by more than an equal-yield multiplicative tariff.
DOI：
10.1111/1468-2354.t01-1-00021
发表时间：
2002-05
期刊：
Macroeconomics eJournal
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作者：
G. Ottaviano;T. Tabuchi;Jacques-François Thisse
通讯作者：
G. Ottaviano;T. Tabuchi;Jacques-François Thisse