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The Gravity Equation in International Trade: Some Microeconomic Foundations and Empirical Evidence Author(s): Jeffrey H. Bergstrand Source: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Aug., 1985), pp. 474-481 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: /stable/1925976 Accessed: 24/08/2010 04:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /action/showPublisher?publisherCode=mitpress. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. The MIT Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Review of Economics and Statistics. THE GRAVITY EQUATION IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: SOME MICROECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Jeffrey H. Bergstrand* Abstract-Despite the gravity equations empirical success in (1980).1 Table I presents resul