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The WTO trade effect
- Authors
- Chang, Pao-Li; Lee, Myoung-Jae
- Issue Date
- 9월-2011
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER
- Keywords
- Trade flow; Treatment effect; Matching; Permutation test; Signed-rank test; Sensitivity analysis
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, v.85, no.1, pp.53 - 71
- Indexed
- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 85
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 53
- End Page
- 71
- ISSN
- 0022-1996
- Abstract
- This paper re-examines the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Together, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification bias, allows general forms of heterogeneous membership effects, and addresses potential hidden selection bias. This is in contrast to most conventional parametric studies on this issue. Our results suggest large GATT/WTO trade-promoting effects that are robust to various restricted matching criteria, alternative GATT/WTO indicators, non-random incidence of positive trade flows, inclusion of multilateral resistance terms, and different matching methodologies. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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