TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,James E.
AU  - Borchert,Ingo
AU  - Mattoo,Aaditya
AU  - Yotov,Yoto V.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Dark Costs, Missing Data: Shedding Some Light on Services Trade 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - September 2015; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time.  Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical implementation sheds light on the role of institutions, geography, size and digital infrastructure as determinants of border barriers. We find that border barriers have generally fallen over time but there are differences across sectors and countries. Notably, border effects for the smallest economies have remained stable, giving rise to a divergent pattern across countries
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w21546
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21546
ER  -