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Port Efficiency, Maritime Transport Costs and Bilateral Trade

Clark, Ximena - 2004

Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to … markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries, transport costs are a greater barrier to U … handling costs, which are one of the components of shipping costs. Reductions in country inefficiencies associated to transport …

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How to Auction an Essential Facility When Underhand Integration is Possible

Engel, Eduardo M.R.A. - 2001

There are many industries in which potentially competitive segments require services provided by natural monopoly bottlenecks (essential facilities). Since it is difficult to regulate these facilities, developing countries are using Demsetz auctions, where the facility is awarded to the firm...

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Investment in Infrastructure and Trade : The Case of Ports

Brancaccio, Giulia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Papageorgiou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Transportation infrastructure is vital for the smooth functioning of international trade. Ports are a crucial gateway to this system: with more than 80% of trade carried by ships, they shape trade costs, and it is critical that they operate efficiently. Yet ports are susceptible to disruptions,...

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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...

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