It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the number of documents required to export and import, a measure of trade facilitation. Three important results follow. First, trade facilitation does improve...
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2013/11/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS6692
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2013/11/01
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Disclosed
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Trade facilitation and country size
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regression results