2020-01-17
The border walls of (de)globalization
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ISS Working Paper Series / General Series , Volume 651
Border walls have recently proliferated and become a global phenomenon with about a third of the countries having at least one wall or fence along its borders. This trend contrasts the idea of the global village and fits into a trend towards deglobalization. So far little attention has been given to their unintended effect. This article fills this gap by developing a gravity model for the years 1990-2014 regarding 118 countries, 44 (37%) of which had a wall during the research period. The impact of border structures on cross-border trade is economically and statistically significant. Countries separated by a wall trade on average 4 to 73 percent less than would ceteris paribus be the case if the border wall did not exist.
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International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS) | |
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Kamwela, V. K., & van Bergeijk, P. (2020). The border walls of (de)globalization. ISS Working Paper Series / General Series (Vol. 651). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/123704 |