Trade policy versus trade facilitation: An application using 'Good Old' OLS

Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Márquez Ramos, Laura ^a   Martínez Zarzoso, Inmaculada ^b   Suárez Burguet, Celestino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Sectoral trade; Tariff barriers; Trade facilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865082011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-11     Document Type: Article

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