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Comparing alternative methods to estimate gravity models of bilateral trade

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Gómez-Herrera, Estrella·2013·Empirical Economics
DOI 10.1007/s00181-012-0576-2
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The gravity equation has been traditionally used to predict trade flows across countries. However, several problems related with its empirical application still remain unsolved. The unobserved heterogeneity, the presence of heteroskedasticity in trade data or the existence of zero flows, which make the estimation of the logarithm unfeasible, are some of them. This paper provides a survey of the most recent literature concerning the specification and estimation methods of this equation. For a dataset covering 80% of world trade, the most widely extended estimators are compared, showing that the Heckman sample selection model performs better overall for the specification of gravity equation selected.

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Authors
Gómez-Herrera, E.
Venue
Empirical Economics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2012-03-28
Volume
44
Issue
3
Pages
1087-1111
ISSN
  • 0377-7332 (ISSN-L)
  • 1435-8921
DOI
10.1007/s00181-012-0576-2
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273
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journal article
Language
en
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