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Barriers
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RECENT PAPER:
Hiscox. Michael J. and Scott Kastner. A
General Measure of Trade Policy Orientations: Gravity-Model-Based Estimates
for 76 Nations, 1960 to 2000 Version 9/11/08. We derive a general,
cross-national measure of trade policy orientations by using fixed country-year
effects in a gravity model estimated with data on bilateral trade flows
across 76 nations between 1960 and 2000. (Downloadable
data)
RELATED PUBLICATION:
Hiscox, Michael J. and Scott Kastner, Trade
Policy Openness, Government Spending, and Democratic Consolidation.
In Global Democracy and Its Difficulties, Anthony Langlois (ed.).
New York: Routledge, 2008. Finds that democracies that are both open to
trade and that do not provide substantial social insurance are more prone
to institutional failure than democracies that are either closed to trade
or that maintain high levels of social insurance.
COMING SOON:
Hainmueller, Jens, Michael J. Hiscox, and Scott Kastner. Applied Gravity:
A New Comparative Index of Trade Policy. We generate a new index of trade
policy from a gravity model of bilateral trade flows that builds on the
Anderson-van Wincoop general equilibrium model of trade. The new measure
is theoretically grounded in a general, fully-specified model of trade,
and can be calculated using available data for a broad range of countries
and years. |
