• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Passport, please! Travels, travails and trade
  • Contributor: Nitsch, Volker [Author]
  • Published: Darmstadt: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Law and Economics, 2018
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: mobility ; F29 ; visa ; barrier ; F14 ; document ; border ; F59
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  • Description: A country's visa policies are widely assumed to have economic consequences. In this short paper, I examine the effect of the ease with which a country's citizens can enter foreign countries on international trade. Using a specification of the gravity model that avoids the endogeneity problems that typically arise when analyzing the association between ease of travel and the extent of bilateral interactions, I find that countries which issue powerful passports experience more international trade.
  • Access State: Open Access