Intranational Home Bias In Trade

Holger C. Wolf

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000, vol. 82, issue 4, 555-563

Abstract: A number of recent studies have found intranational trade to be excessive compared to international trade, based on a gravity specification. The preferred explanation for this finding has been the presence of formal and informal trade barriers, with associated welfare consequences. If such barriers were indeed the sole culprit, home bias should not exist on the subnational level. We find, however, that home bias is present within U.S. states, suggesting the presence of other causes of excessive home trade. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: 2000
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