Information Frictions in Trade

By Treb Allen. 2014

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Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration (2017, background): “Allen (2014) also exploits this useful Pareto property to compare the price elasticity of rice trade flows across regions of the Philippines with different λ.”
The Gains from Market Integration (2015, background): “…& Waugh 2014a,b; Donaldson 2015), how information frictions can impede trade in a manner distinct from trade costs (Jensen 2007, Steinwender 2013, Allen 2014), how time delays act as a barrier to trade (Harrigan 2010, Hummels & Schaur 2013), how imperfect competition in the trading sector…”
Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture (2015, background): “Allen (2012) has shown that information costs are an important part of total trade costs.”
Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy (2014, neutral): “While we believe these are attractive properties for trade costs arising from transportation costs, they abstract from alternative sources of trade costs, e.g. origin-specific tariffs or information frictions (see e.g. Allen (2012)).”
What Separates Us? Sources of Resistance to Globalization (2013, neutral): “Allen (2012) estimates that search costs account for 90% of the distance effect, leaving only 10% for transport costs.”
Rural Roads and Intermediated Trade: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Sierra Leone (IGC Working Paper) (2012, background): “In the rice price data from the high frequency surveys, evidence for a treatment effect in the form of a price reduction is much weaker (see Figure 6 and Table 5, columns (3)-(4)).”
Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment (2018, neutral): “Recent theoretical and empirical research has singled out information costs in particular as inhibiting trade flows (Steinwender, 2013; Allen, 2014; Chaney, 2014).”
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: An Explanation (2018, background): “…approximated by Zipf ’s law and if the average squared distance of firms’ exports is a power function of firm size, as the data suggest, then the distance elasticity of trade ought to be close 16 See Allen (2014) and Dasgupta and Mondria (2014) for recent trade models with information frictions.”
Brexit and the macroeconomic impact of trade policy uncertainty (2019, background): “The literature on trade costs has found that non-tariff barriers are often larger than tariffs (Anderson and van Wincoop, 2004; Allen, 2014; Lim, 2018), particularly in the services sector where tariffs are essentially nonexistent.”
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2017, neutral): “Allen (2014) estimates that matching frictions explain half of the overall variation in trade costs, while Lederman, Olarreaga, and Payton (2010) note that reducing matching frictions for small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) is a key goal for export promotion agencies.”