Why Are Emerging-Economy Borders So Thick? An Updated Meta-Analysis of Border Effects in International Trade, with Rules-of-Origin Moderators

This is the registration of a meta-analysis that extends Havranek and Irsova (2017), who synthesised 1,271 border-effect estimates from 61 studies available by January 2014. I add studies published since 2014 and African evidence, and test whether the much larger border effect estimated for emerging economies is partly explained by how restrictive the rules of origin are in the trade agreements covering each sample. The analysis utilises Bayesian model averaging with the original study's settings.