Intra-national Home Bias: Some Explanations /

Wolf (2000) demonstrates that trade within the U.S. appears substantially impeded by state borders. We revisit this finding with improved data. We show that much intra-national home bias can be explained by wholesaling activity. Shipments by wholesalers are much more localized within states than...

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Intra-national Home Bias
1. Verfasser:
Hillberry, Russell
Körperschaft:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Weitere Verfasser:
Hummels, David
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
Zusammenfassung:
Wolf (2000) demonstrates that trade within the U.S. appears substantially impeded by state borders. We revisit this finding with improved data. We show that much intra-national home bias can be explained by wholesaling activity. Shipments by wholesalers are much more localized within states than shipments from manufacturing establishments. Controlling for relative prices and the use of actual, rather than imputed, shipment distances also reduces home bias estimates.
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1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
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June 2002.
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