Genetic distance, cultural differences, and the formation of regional trade agreements
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2021
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Heid, B.
Lu, W.
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Review of World Economics, 2021; 158(1):1-23
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Benedikt Heid and Wenxi Lu
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Genetic distance between countries’ populations has been shown to proxy crosscountry diferences in cultures and preferences. In an unbalanced panel of 133 countries from 1970 to 2012, the study fnds that higher genetic distance between two countries decreases their probability of having a trade agreement, even when controlling for geographic distance and other controls. The impact of cultural differences proxied by genetic distance is persistent over time and economically signifcant: While increasing the geographic distance between two countries by 1% decreases the probability of a regional trade agreement by 0.11% points, increasing their genetic distance by 1% decreases the probability by 0.06% points.
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© Kiel Institute 2021