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The Role of Institutional Environment in International Trade. The Case of Spanish Regions

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Title The Role of Institutional Environment in International Trade. The Case of Spanish Regions
 
Creator Márquez-Ramos, Laura
 
Description We move beyond the nation-state as the unit of analysis and use subnational spatial variation to study the effect of the institutional environment on international trade. Additionally, we address the heterogeneous effect of trade agreements on different regions within a country. Employing a gravity model approach, we use a region-to-country dataset to estimate the determinants of Spanish regional exports and we apply quantile regressions for panel data. We find that better institutional quality of trade agreements leads to an increase in both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade. The institutional quality of trade agreements exerts a differential effect on regional exports at different locations within a country, although differences across Spanish regions seem to be larger for the intensive margin than for the extensive margin. We do, however, find a common trend: for the relatively more important exporting regions, the institutional quality of TAs is less relevant for trade margins. Therefore, our results posit that subnational spatial variation should be added to the analysis of the determinants of international trade flows.
 
Publisher ERSA
 
Date 2016-12-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Econometric Analysis; Quantile
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/147
10.18335/region.v3i2.147
 
Source REGION; Vol 3 No 2 (2016); 125-140
2409-5370
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/147/128
http://openjournals.wu.ac.at/ojs/index.php/region/article/view/147/129
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 LAURA MARQUEZ-RAMOS
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