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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 27, 2016
The Review of International Economics has accepted for publication a paper co-authored by associate professor Tibor Besedeš and Matthew T. Cole (Cal Poly) titled “Distorted Trade Barriers: A Dissection of Trade Costs in a ‘Distorted Gravity’ Model.” The paper shows that in certain models of international trade tariffs and shipping costs do not have identical effects.