Are Bilateral Trade Balances Irrelevant? /

Based on an empirical gravity model of sectoral bilateral trade, we uncover three features of bilateral trade balances. First, the difficulty of gravity models in fitting the observed level of bilateral balances is likely due to the presence of unobservable bilateral trade costs. Second, the model f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Margaux
Other Authors: Eugster, Johannes, Jaumotte, Florence, Piazza, Roberto
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/210
Online Access:Full text available on IMF