CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Hornok, Cecilia |
|---|---|
| Title | International Trade Barriers |
| Summary | Understanding potentially welfare-distorting barriers to international trade is a central issue in the trade research. Trade barriers are numerous and are not confined to direct trade policy instruments like tariffs or quotas. In fact, the majority of trade distortions are related to factors like transport infrastructure, institutions, legal framework, or culture. The recent literature has shifted towards discovering these latter, and much less understood, types of trade barriers. The first two chapters of this thesis provide direct contribution to the above line of research. Chapter 1 deals with the cost of time delays in international trade, while Chapter 2 is about trade costs associated with the administrative tasks of trading. In contrast, the contribution of Chapter 3 is methodological. It discusses some limitations of identifying the effects of trade barriers that are captured by dummies in gravity equations, the workhorse estimating model of trade. |
| Supervisor | Koren, Miklós |
| Department | Economics PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/cphhoc01.pdf |
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