Xiong, Bo; Chen, Sixia - In: Applied Economics 46 (2014) 24, pp. 2993-3003
Gravity models are widely used to explain patterns of trade. However, two stylized features of trade data, sample selection and heteroscedasticity challenge the estimation of gravity models. We propose a two-step method of moments (TS-MM) estimator that deals with both issues. The Monte-Carlo...