Exploring European Regional Trade / Marta A. Santamaría, Jaume Ventura, Uğur Yeşilbayraktar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santamaría, Marta A.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ventura, Jaume.

Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31037.

NBER working paper series no. w31037

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.

Summary:

We use the new dataset of trade flows across 269 European regions in 24 countries constructed in Santamaría et al. (2020) to systematically explore for the first time trade patterns within and across country borders. We focus on the differences between home trade, country trade and foreign trade. We document the following facts: (i) European regional trade has a strong home and country bias, (ii) geographic distance and national borders are important determinants of regional trade, but cannot explain the strong regional home bias and (iii) the home bias is heterogeneous across regions and seems to be driven by political regional borders.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2023.