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Reconciling the WTO Effects on Trade at the Extensive and Intensive Margins

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Empirical studies examining the impact of World Trade Organization (WTO) membership have produced disparate results. These studies, however, have focused on total aggregate trade flows. In this paper, we utilize disaggregated product level data to examine the impact of WTO membership on the product level extensive and intensive margin of imports. Utilizing the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimation that allows for heteroskedasticity in trade data and accounting for several estimation issues, we do not find a positive impact on either margins between WTO member country-pairs. Once we examine asymmetries in trade flows across countries based on their level of development, we find that developing WTO members experience an increase in the extensive margin from industrial member countries. Additionally, the industrial WTO members also experience an increase in the extensive margin from developing WTO members. Results suggest that WTO facilitates the North-South trade relationship, which has been largely absent in trade literature.

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  • Rishav Bista, 2015. "Reconciling the WTO Effects on Trade at the Extensive and Intensive Margins," International Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(2), pages 231-257, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intecj:v:29:y:2015:i:2:p:231-257
    DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2015.1020622
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    1. Tingting Xiong, 2024. "Bilateral investment treaty, technological intensity, and international trade," International Economics and Economic Policy, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 411-434, May.
    2. Nivedita Mullick & Areej A. Siddiqui, 2021. "Economic Integration Agreements and Extensive Margin of Export: An Empirical Study of India," Working Papers 2155, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
    3. Silviano Esteve-Pérez & Salvador Gil-Pareja & Rafael Llorca-Vivero, 2020. "Does the GATT/WTO promote trade? After all, Rose was right," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 156(2), pages 377-405, May.
    4. Salvador Gil-Pareja & Rafael Llorca-Vivero & José Antonio Martínez-Serrano, 2016. "A Re-Examination of the Effect of GATT/WTO on Trade," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 27(3), pages 561-584, July.
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    6. Samuel Admassu, 2020. "The trade creation effects of Africa’s reciprocal vis-à-vis non-reciprocal trade agreements," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 59(6), pages 2717-2730, December.

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