<p>Answering my own question --- although I don't have a a reference per se, I've been told that</p>

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<li>if you have no idea at all, -5 is a good ,,first guess``, and</li>
<li>there is a paper (and this is what I don't have a reference for, sadly) where the author worked through all the available estimates and arrived at -4,25 as the ,,best guess``.</li>
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<p>I'm an undergrad student of economics, and I need to find estimates of the trade cost elasticity of the UK's imports for some homework. My instructors pointed me to the World Bank's databases, specifically the <a href="https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators" rel="nofollow noreferrer">World Development Indicators</a>, but I've not been able to find those estimates there. Google has not proved helpful either.</p>

<p>I'd be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction.</p>

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Finding data on (estimated) trade cost elasticities of imports
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# Finding data on (estimated) trade cost elasticities of imports

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-01-14)

I'm an undergrad student of economics, and I need to find estimates of the trade cost elasticity of the UK's imports for some homework. My instructors pointed me to the World Bank's databases, specifically the [World Development Indicators](https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators), but I've not been able to find those estimates there. Google has not proved helpful either.

I'd be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction.

**Tags:** international-trade, elasticity, united-kingdom


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### Answer by username_0 on 2020-01-24. Score: 0

Answering my own question --- although I don't have a a reference per se, I've been told that

1. if you have no idea at all, -5 is a good ,,first guess``, and
2. there is a paper (and this is what I don't have a reference for, sadly) where the author worked through all the available estimates and arrived at -4,25 as the ,,best guess``.


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