Maritime transport has been historically susceptible to piracy. While broad assessments suggest the impact of modern … 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 …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

in lower transport costs through scale economies by using larger ships. We build a model of endogenous entrepôt formation … incorporating route choice by exporters within a Ricardian setting. We use the model to estimate trade costs on each shipping leg …

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. …

We study the interactions between fuel efficiency improvements in the transport sector and the oil market, where the … efficiency improvements are policy-induced in certain regions of the world. We are especially interested in feedback mechanisms … noticeable effect on the transport sector, but also on other sectors through lower oil prices in the regions that introduce the …

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 …