Transport Costs and Economic Integration in the Americas
We discuss three models from the literature in which transportation costs play a critical role in evaluating international economic integration. One considers costs on intra-bloc trade, one those of extra-bloc trade, and one the relativity of the two. We then examine estimates of the actual transportation costs on Latin American exports to the United States. These are significant - generally higher than trade barriers - and are higher on Latin American exports than European exports. The paper concludes that transportation costs do not provide a strong incentive for integration in the Americas, and that reducing such costs could be an important complement to integration.
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1995
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Authors: | Amjadi, Azita ; Winters, L. Alan ; Yeats, Alexander |
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Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES). - Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Société Suisse d"Économie et de Statistique - SGVS/SSES, ISSN 0303-9692. - Vol. 131.1995, III, p. 465-488
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Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Société Suisse d"Économie et de Statistique - SGVS/SSES |
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