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Administrative Barriers and the Lumpiness of Trade

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  • Cecília Hornok
  • Miklós Koren

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We document that administrative trade costs of per shipment nature (documentation, customs clearance and inspection) lead to less frequent and larger-sized shipments, i.e., more lumpiness, in international trade. We build a model where consumers have heterogeneous preferences for the arrival time of a non-storable product and firms compete by selecting the time of their shipment. Per shipment costs reduce shipment frequency, increase the shipment size and the product price and lead to welfare losses. We provide empirical evidence for these effects on detailed export data from the US and Spain. We find that US and Spanish exporters send fewer and larger shipments to countries with higher administrative barriers. However, we find no robust evidence that such destination would command higher prices.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Central European University in its series CEU Working Papers with number 2012_6.

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Date of creation: 01 Sep 2011
Date of revision: 01 Sep 2011
Handle: RePEc:ceu:econwp:2012_6

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