railway container facilities to construct a time-varying bilateral technology variable and estimate its effect on explaining …

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 …

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. …

This paper exploits exogenous features of the 1960s/70s container revolution to estimate the impact of the introduction … of refrigerated containers (or reefers) on new trade of temperature sensitive products. Our identification strategy is … pharmaceuticals, photo film and sensitive instruments. Our study combines previously collected data on variations in the container …