Used automobile protection and trade: Gravity and ordered probit analysis

Empirical Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 737-751

  Pelletiere, Danilo ^a   Reinert, Kenneth A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity model; International trade; Ordered probit; Used goods

Indexed keywords

EXPORT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PROTECTIONISM; TRADE FLOW;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8644228554     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-004-0216-6     Document Type: Article

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