The foreign service and foreign trade
Subtitle: embassies as export promotion
By: Andrew K. Rose.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11111; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11111.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Foreign trade promotion.; Diplomatic and consular service.
Description: "As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering.  Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion.  I investigate whether exports are in fact systematically associated with diplomatic representation abroad.  I use a recent cross-section of data covering twenty-two large exporters and two-hundred import destinations.  Bilateral exports rise by approximately 6-10% for each additional consulate abroad, controlling for a host of other features including reverse causality.  The effect varies by exporter, and is non-linear; consulates have smaller effects than the creation of an embassy"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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