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Estimating the Trade Elasticity over Time

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  • Hakan Yilmazkuday

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Using quarterly data on the U.S. imports from its major trading partners and the corresponding trade costs, this paper estimates the trade elasticity by using a panel structural vector autoregressive model that can distinguish between short-run versus long-run elasticity measures in a continuous way and is robust to any endogeneity problem. The estimated trade elasticity measures are highly consistent with studies in alternative literatures, suggesting a short-run value of about 1 (after one quarter), a medium-run value of about 5 (after one year), and a long-run value of about 7 (after five years).

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  • Hakan Yilmazkuday, 2019. "Estimating the Trade Elasticity over Time," Working Papers 1903, Florida International University, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Trade Elasticity; Short-run; Medium-run; Long-run;

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    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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