Beyond tariffs: three essays on non-conventional impediments to trade

Diplôme Thèse Beyond tariffs: three essays on non-conventional impediments to trade eng 2016-02-23 author Bratt Michael 684179 director Olarreaga Marcelo 0000-0002-1208-1544 28000 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:82094 urn:nbn:ch:unige-820949 GSEM 21 This thesis explores the impact that two types of non-conventional barriers - non-tariff measures (NTMs) and cultural traits - have on trade. The first essay deals with the asymmetric impact that NTMs can have on trading partners and provides estimates of the bilateral effects of NTMs (in terms of ad valorem equivalents) across exporter-importer pairs. The second essay finds support that, at the global level, the negative impact of NTMs on trade is greater with respect to final goods (“NTM escalation”), but that there is a degree of NTM de-escalation as one moves from primary goods to intermediate goods. The third essay investigates what role, if any, that the cultural traits of trust propensity and agreeableness might have on international trade and shows that their impact is limited when considered in isolation, but that trust propensity has a strong and positive effect on trade when it is interacted with distance. International trade Gravity model Non-tariff measures Ad valorem equivalents Developing countries Developed countries Escalation Cultural traits Trust Dewey 330 114 Institute of Economics and Econometrics S2 false d7c4d758-9691-4637-9af8-2644c2987f51 Thesis Public Dissertation.pdf 1452295 application/pdf openAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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