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National Security and International Trade

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  • Heejoon Kang
  • Michele Fratianni

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The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack to the twin towers and ensuing heightened national security measures worldwide, but particularly in the United States, are modeled to be equivalent to a thickening of trade barriers in international trade. By estimating a gravity model with a stochastic frontier technique, an effective trade barrier is quantified by “trade inefficiency,†that is by the difference between potential trade and actual trade; this is done both for country pairs and for a given country vis-à -vis all of its trading partners. The impact of higher security levels on trade is examined through hypothetical increases in border thickness, for given values of control variables

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  • Heejoon Kang & Michele Fratianni, 2004. "National Security and International Trade," Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings 744, Econometric Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecm:feam04:744
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    Keywords

    Gravity model; political relations; stochastic frontier estimation; trade barriers;
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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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