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Dangerous waters : the economic toll of piracy on maritime shipping
Molina, Renato; Villaseñor-Derbez, Juan Carlos; … - 2024
responses that underpin them. Here, we combine theory and a unique geospatial dataset combining more than 25 million shipping … behaviour and aggregate transportation cost, as well as its environmental impact, with major implications for the shipping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521173
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Shipping inside the box : containerization and trade
Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu - 2017
containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage …, the box decreases variable shipping costs between 16 to 22 percent. The box explains a significant amount of the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597265
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Unpacking global shocks
Graziano, Alejandro G.; Tian, Yuan - 2024
container ship port calls. We find that local disruptions to domestic demand reduced import quantities, while local disruptions …
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Container trade and the U.S. recovery
Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021
trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from …%. The difference is mainly accounted for by unexpected reductions in frictions in the container shipping market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550202
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Entrepôt : hubs, scale, and trade costs
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong; Ziv, Oren - 2020
incorporating route choice by exporters within a Ricardian setting. We use the model to estimate trade costs on each shipping leg …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197550
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Measuring global real economic activity : do recent critiques hold up to scrutiny?
Kilian, Lutz - 2019
Hamilton (2018) suggests that the Kilian (2009) index of global real economic activity is misleading and calls for alternative measures. The problem documented by Hamilton is a consequence of a coding mistake. Specifically, the index of nominal freight rates underlying the Kilian index was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958840
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Ports vs. roads : infrastructure, market access and regional outcomes
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2024 - This version: August 2024
international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … elasticity of route switching governs the relative gains from port vs road improvements. I find that returns of improving ports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074610
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Health care expenditure and income : a global perspective
Baltagi, Badi H.; Lagravinese, Raffaele; Moscone, Francesco - 2016
This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world … using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540773
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...
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Banking permits : economic efficiency and distributional effects
Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635240