Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69537 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4099
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to determine the barriers to international trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in a simple two-country model. We then demonstrate the result quantitatively for the case of capital goods trade: barriers have to be large in order to be consistent with the observed trade flows even though our model implies that capital goods prices are similar across countries. Zero barriers to trade in capital goods will deliver price equalization in capital goods, but cannot reproduce the observed trade flows.
Subjects: 
international trade
capital goods trade
JEL: 
F01
F02
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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