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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: A, University of Hohenheim, course: International Food- And Agricultural Trade, language: English, abstract: This thesis reviews the border effect approach as an application of gravity models of trade and different methods of including multilateral resistance terms (MRTs) in it. Some focus is laid on the endogeneity problem of the approach. In an empirical application of the approach, agricultural trade between Turkey and the EU is analysed; the effect of data pooling and aggregation is studied; the conversion of estimated border effects into ad-valorem tariff equivalents (AVEs) reveals the crucial importance of a reliable measure of the elasticity of substitution when trying to separate the effects of NTBs of the total effect of a border. Keywords: Non-tariff barriers to trade; gravity model; border effect approach; agricultural trade; EU; Turkey; ad-valorem tariff equivalents;

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