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Measuring the Width of National Boarders

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  • Helliwell, John F

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The paper deals with three issues that are central to the combined use of intranational and international data to estimate the economic consequences of national borders. The first issue concerns the measurement of trading distances for transactions that take place within a country or region. The second issue relates to the use of coefficients from an estimated gravity relationship to express the border effect in terms of an equivalent distance. The author proposes a technique to avoid problems that have beset earlier attempts to do this. The third issue is the need to ensure that the border and distance effects are estimated independently. Copyright 2002 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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  • Helliwell, John F, 2002. "Measuring the Width of National Boarders," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 10(3), pages 517-524, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reviec:v:10:y:2002:i:3:p:517-24
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    1. Guillaume Daudin, 2005. "Les transactions de la mondialisation," Revue de l'OFCE, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 92(1), pages 221-262.
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    3. M. Manchin & Am Pinna, 2003. "Border effects in the enlarged EU area," Working Paper CRENoS 200301, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
    4. Salas-Olmedo, María Henar & García, Patricia & Gutiérrez, Javier, 2015. "Accessibility and transport infrastructure improvement assessment: The role of borders and multilateral resistance," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 110-129.
    5. Maria Henar Sales-Olmedo & Ana Condeço-Melhorado & Javier Gutiérrez, 2014. "Border effect and market potential: the case of the European Union," Chapters, in: Ana Condeço-Melhorado & Aura Reggiani & Javier Gutiérrez (ed.), Accessibility and Spatial Interaction, chapter 7, pages 133-155, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    6. Arjan Lejour & J.W. de Paiva Verheijden, 2004. "Services trade within Canada and the European Union; what do they have in common?," CPB Discussion Paper 42.rdf, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    7. van Ypersele, Tanguy & Turrini, Alessandro, 2006. "Legal Costs as Barriers to Trade," CEPR Discussion Papers 5751, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    8. Chen, Natalie, 2004. "Intra-national versus international trade in the European Union: why do national borders matter?," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(1), pages 93-118, May.
    9. Jasmin Katrin Gröschl & Vincent Schippers & Thomas Steinwachs, 2020. "Borders, Roads and the Relocation of Economic Activity Due to Extreme Weather," CESifo Working Paper Series 8193, CESifo.
    10. Hayakawa, Kazunobu, 2016. "Domestic and international border effects," IDE Discussion Papers 565, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
    11. Juan Alcacer & Paul Ingram, 2008. "Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment," Harvard Business School Working Papers 09-045, Harvard Business School.
    12. Arjan Lejour & J.W. de Paiva Verheijden, 2004. "Services trade within Canada and the European Union; what do they have in common?," CPB Discussion Paper 42, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
    13. George J. Georgopoulos, 2008. "Cross‐border mergers and acquisitions: does the exchange rate matter? Some evidence for Canada," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 41(2), pages 450-474, May.

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