Hirte, Georg; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: April 08, 2014
the panel data set of Lessmann (2014), which covers 56 countries (835 sub-national regions) for the period 1980-2009. The … IV and dynamic panel regressions provide evidence that trade increases interregional inequality, but that the coefficient … of the freeness-of-trade variable is ambiguous. Because the latter is an indicator for integration in the world markets …