Using the Gravity Model to Estimate the Costs of Protection (ICPSR 1200)

Version Date: Jun 23, 1999

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Principal Investigator(s):
Howard J. Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01200.v1

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Economists' estimates of the actual burden that trade protectionism imposes on the economy have been surprisingly small. In this article, the author presents a method that captures some of the effects and distortions of trade protection that have not been captured by existing methods. He finds that during 1996, worldwide protectionism reduced United States exports by 26.2 percent. Likewise, United States protectionism decreased United States imports from non-NAFTA countries by 15.4 percent. He calculates further that the welfare cost of United States protectionism amounted to about 1.45 percent of United States national income, which is much higher than previous estimates.

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Wall, Howard J. Using the Gravity Model to Estimate the Costs of Protection. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-06-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01200.v1

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  1. (1) The file submitted is 9901hw.xls, which contains the data for the regressions in the article. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.

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1999-06-23

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • Wall, Howard J. Using the Gravity Model to Estimate the Costs of Protection. ICPSR01200-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-06-03. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01200.v1

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