Nitsch, Volker ; Wolf, Nikolaus (2013)
Tear down this wall: on the persistence of borders in trade.
In: Canadian Journal of Economics, 46 (1)
Article, Bibliographie
Abstract
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and economic union, strong and strictly enforced administrative barriers to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. Remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East-West border suggests that border effects are neither statistical artefacts nor driven by administrative barriers to trade, but arise from economic fundamentals.
Item Type: | Article |
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Erschienen: | 2013 |
Creators: | Nitsch, Volker ; Wolf, Nikolaus |
Type of entry: | Bibliographie |
Title: | Tear down this wall: on the persistence of borders in trade |
Language: | English |
Date: | February 2013 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Inc |
Journal or Publication Title: | Canadian Journal of Economics |
Volume of the journal: | 46 |
Issue Number: | 1 |
URL / URN: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/caje.12002 |
Abstract: | Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and economic union, strong and strictly enforced administrative barriers to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. Remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East-West border suggests that border effects are neither statistical artefacts nor driven by administrative barriers to trade, but arise from economic fundamentals. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | F14, F15 |
Divisions: | 01 Department of Law and Economics 01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete 01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete > International Economics |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2013 12:22 |
Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2021 08:07 |
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