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Determinants of Trade Misinvoicing

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  • Ila Patnaik
  • Abhijit Sen Gupta
  • Ajay Shah

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Trade misinvoicing should be seen as an element of de facto capital account openness. Traditional explanations for trade misinvoicing—high custom duties and weak domestic economies—are less persuasive in a world of high growth emerging markets that have low trade barriers. We construct a 53-country data set over a 26 year span, covering both industrialized and developing countries, to study the phenomena of export and import misinvoicing. Capital account openness, differentials in interest rates, political stability, corruption, indebtedness and the exchange rate regime are identified as factors related to misinvoicing. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

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  • Ila Patnaik & Abhijit Sen Gupta & Ajay Shah, 2012. "Determinants of Trade Misinvoicing," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 23(5), pages 891-910, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:openec:v:23:y:2012:i:5:p:891-910
    DOI: 10.1007/s11079-011-9214-4
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    Keywords

    Trade Misinvoicing; Capital controls; Capital account openness; Political stability; Custom duties; F14; F32; F41; F43;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies

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