Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) Vienna Austria
2. Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) Wien Austria
3. CESifo Munich Germany
Abstract
AbstractThis paper studies the direct and indirect trade volume and trade cost effects of uncertainty on international trade and economic welfare using a structural gravity framework for a panel of 97 developed and developing countries from 2000 to 2018. We find that the sign and magnitude of the effect depend on whether uncertainty originates from the importing or exporting country. Moreover, applying a cross‐sectional gravity model, we show that an uncertainty shock directly reduces cross‐border trade flows. The paper illustrates the suitability of the proposed modelling approach by means of two counterfactual scenario analyses in which we calculate the general equilibrium trade and welfare effects of uncertainty induced by the unexpected outcome of the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020.
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Economics and Econometrics,Finance,Accounting
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