Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The … effects literatures. Our estimation results show a remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East …

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The … effects literatures. Our estimation results show a remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East …

and island regions; then a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition is applied to the gravity estimation results in order to …

This paper compares various estimation methods often used in the estimation of gravity models of international trade …. The authors first discuss different structural and consistent estimation techniques, their underlying assumptions and … empirical methodologies. They focus on a comparison of the distance and border effects across estimation techniques. For the …

This paper compares various estimation techniques used to determine the impact of distance and borders on international … estimation method. In addition, also the size of both effects varies substantially across estimation methods. Finally, the … authors generally find that the estimations are in line with the respective weighting schemes of each estimation method. …