Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints.

Fernando Borraz, Alberto Cavallo, Roberto Rigobon, Leandro Zipitría

NBER Working Paper No. 18122
Issued in June 2012

---- Acknowledgements -----

We are grateful to Fernando Antía and Bruno Delgado at the General Directorate of Commerce of Uruguay for providing us with the data. We thank seminar participants at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, MIT, the Central Bank of Peru, the Central Bank of Uruguay, Universidad de San Andres, dECON, and Universita di Venezia for all their comments and suggestions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

---- Disclosure of Financial Relationships for Leandro Zipitría -----

I have worked for the Dirección General de Comercio at the time I start working in this article.

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