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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Economics.
dc.contributor.advisor Kuzubaş, Tolga Umut.
dc.contributor.author Selçuk, Serdar.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:00:13Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:00:13Z
dc.date.issued 2019.
dc.identifier.other EC 2019 S45
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16329
dc.description.abstract This thesis aims to investigate the empirical relevance of the impact of sectoral competition on the increasing negative impact of geographic distance on international trade flows vis-a-vis the secular decline in the transportation and communication costs, which is known as the distance puzzle. Using disaggregated trade data, I find that as the international markets become more competitive; bilateral trade becomes more elastic to distance. My analysis reveal that increasing competition explains 20% of changes in the distance elasticity of trade between 1976 and 2016. I examine alternative hypothesis to explain the rising distance effect. My results imply that declining average tariff rates reduce the importance of distance on trade. I find that goods with increasing elasticity of substitution are likely to be more distance elastic over time. I also find that differentiated products are less distance sensitive compared to homogenous goods.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019.
dc.subject.lcsh Commercial policy -- Competition.
dc.subject.lcsh International trade -- Competition.
dc.title Competition and the distance puzzle
dc.format.pages ix, 48 leaves ;


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