Does distance still matter for agricultural trade?
This paper quantifies the average effect of distance on bilateral agricultural trade using a large sample of countries. We focus on identifying time-varying effects of distance on trade to test whether the marginal effect has gradually diminished in recent years; to do this, we use a sample that inc...
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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147473 |
| Summary: | This paper quantifies the average effect of distance on bilateral agricultural trade using a large sample of countries. We focus on identifying time-varying effects of distance on trade to test whether the marginal effect has gradually diminished in recent years; to do this, we use a sample that includes more than 200 countries and spans the period 1995-2013. A variety of robustness checks and model specifications are used. The results suggest that the “distance effect” significantly explains bilateral agricultural trade flows. |
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