State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Extensive Margin of Trade
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Publication:100784
DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2004.12655arXiv2004.12655MaRDI QIDQ100784FDOQ100784
Authors: Julian Hinz, Amrei Stammann, Joschka Wanner 
Publication date: 27 April 2020
Abstract: We study the role and drivers of persistence in the extensive margin of bilateral trade. Motivated by a stylized heterogeneous firms model of international trade with market entry costs, we consider dynamic three-way fixed effects binary choice models and study the corresponding incidental parameter problem. The standard maximum likelihood estimator is consistent under asymptotics where all panel dimensions grow at a constant rate, but it has an asymptotic bias in its limiting distribution, invalidating inference even in situations where the bias appears to be small. Thus, we propose two different bias-corrected estimators. Monte Carlo simulations confirm their desirable statistical properties. We apply these estimators in a reassessment of the most commonly studied determinants of the extensive margin of trade. Both true state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity contribute considerably to trade persistence and taking this persistence into account matters significantly in identifying the effects of trade policies on the extensive margin.
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