{"id":1708,"date":"2023-02-13T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/publications\/trade-liberalisation-and-import-margins\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:19:19","slug":"trade-liberalisation-and-import-margins","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/en\/publications\/trade-liberalisation-and-import-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Liberalisation and Import Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"\nTrade policy has well documented effects on trade volumes. Reaching beyond volumes, I explore the impact of European emerging economies\u2019 recent institutional trade liberalisation on extensive (i.e., the set of imported goods) versus intensive import margins (volumes per imported good) with highly disaggregated data. Differentiating goods categories by use, I find robust evidence of stronger extensive import margin effects of liberalisation for intermediate and capital goods compared to consumer goods. This identifies an important channel for the link between reforms and growth in transition. The results also support new models of heterogeneous firms and trade, which predict that extensive import margin effects of a country\u2019s institutional trade liberalisation should \u2013 via lowering fixed costs for rest of the world exporters \u2013 increase with decreasing substitutability among products.\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","jelcode":[173,61,441],"keyword":[493,1002,1003],"class_list":["post-1708","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","jelcode-f12","jelcode-f14","jelcode-o33","keyword-gravity","keyword-product-variety","keyword-trade-liberalisation"],"acf":{"year":2009,"month":12,"day":"","volume":"","number":"039","pages":32,"reviewed":"0","citeid":"FIW_WP_039","fiwseries":"FIW Working Papers","event":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trade Liberalisation and Import Margins - FIW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiw.ac.at\/en\/publications\/trade-liberalisation-and-import-margins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trade Liberalisation and Import Margins - FIW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Trade policy has well documented effects on trade volumes. 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