Gravity with google maps: the border puzzle revisited

I calculate road travel times between the capitals of US states and Canadian provinces with Google Maps. With this measure of trade cost I estimate the US-Canada border effect for aggregate and industry-level trade flows in line with the method introduced by Anderson and van Wincoop (2003), as well as using linar fixed effects and Poisson estimation. I find a high degree of heterogeneity in the resulting coefficients.

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Year of publication:	2013-09-17
Authors:	Benz, Sebastian
Published in:	Economics Bulletin. - AccessEcon, ISSN 1545-2921. - Vol. 33.2013, 3, p. 2414-2421
Publisher:	AccessEcon
Subject:	Gravity \| Border puzzle \| Multilateral resistance

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Extent:	application/pdf
Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	F1 - Trade
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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