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Essays On The Effect Of Trade Facilitation On Bilateral Agricultural Trade, Trina Biswas
Essays On The Effect Of Trade Facilitation On Bilateral Agricultural Trade, Trina Biswas
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation offers three independent studies that each contributes to the literature on trade facilitation. The papers are built on the gravity model framework where the relationship between trade facilitation variables and the volume of agricultural exports across the border are examined. To deal with the issue of endogeneity, instrumental variable regression is used. The study also corrects for sample-selection bias present in the trade data. The first paper examines the role of e-governance on bilateral agricultural trade. The study finds that better quality of e-governance promotes agricultural exports. Specifically, according to the findings of the paper, the quality of …