Essays on international trade and economic geography
This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction in trade costs stemming from the 2004 Enlargement of the European Union contributed to spatial ine...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/687917 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/687917 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | International trade Comerç internacional 33 |
| Sumario: | This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction in trade costs stemming from the 2004 Enlargement of the European Union contributed to spatial inequality within and across countries. I develop an open-economy model of economic geography to structurally estimate the effect of EU enlargement on differential growth in urban centres. In the second chapter, I employ a newly constructed dataset to estimate the “border effect” on trade in Europe using novel empirical techniques in the trade literature. I find that borders in Europe are still a significant impediment to trade and represent a cost equivalent to a 32.5 percent tariff. In the third chapter, I explore the trade patterns within and across country borders in Europe, focusing on the differences between home, country and foreign trade. I document that European regional trade has a strong home and country bias and that this strong home bias is heterogeneous across geography. |
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