A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an important role in shaping a country's comparative advantage. Using highly disaggregated bilateral and unique harmonized firm-level trade data across a large number of countries, this paper contributes to this literature by providing a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms through which institutional frictions affect the pattern of...
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2018/10/30
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8631
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2018/10/30
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Disclosed
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Contractual Frictions and the Margins of Trade
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pattern of trade