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标题：Information Cost As A Prior Hurdle to Exporting
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作者：Wei, Xuan ; Thornsbury, Suzanne
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2011
卷号：SUPPL
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：In this paper, we empirically assess how information cost, as one component of trade costs, impacts the decision of an individual firm to export. Firm-level data measuring the difficulty of obtaining information about technical regulations in the European Union (EU) and the United States is used as a proxy for information cost to evaluate reduction in firm incentives to export. Results suggest that information cost significantly reduces the likelihood of exporting to these two destinations. Negative impacts are relatively larger for a firm exporting to the United States than to the EU.
关键词：information cost;trade costs;non-tariff;technical barriers to trade;probit