Quality of government and regional trade: evidence from European Union regions
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UAM. Departamento de Estructura Económica y Economía del DesarrolloPublisher
RoutledgeDate
2021-02-18Citation
10.1080/00343404.2021.1873934
Regional Studies 55.7 (2021): 1240-1251
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0034-3404 (print); 1360-0591 (online)DOI
10.1080/00343404.2021.1873934Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1873934Subjects
gravity model of trade; institutions; quality of government; regional policy; structural estimation; EconomíaRights
© 2021 The Author(s)Abstract
Using a novel database of regional trade flows between 267 European regions for 2013, this paper examines how government quality affects trade between European Union (EU) regions. The results of a structural gravity cross-sectional analysis of trade show that trade across EU regions is highly influenced by differences in regional government quality. This influence varies by both sector of economic activity and the level of economic development of the region. The results indicate that if the less developed regions of the EU want to engage in greater interregional trade, improving their institutional quality is a must
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Google Scholar:Barbero Jiménez, Javier
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Mandras, Giovanni
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Rodríguez Crespo, Ernesto
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Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés
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