determinant of shipping costs. Improving port efficiency from the 25th to the 75th percentile reduces shipping costs by 12 percent ….S. markets than import tariffs. We investigate the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than … world. Distance volumes and product characteristics matter. In addition, we find that ports efficiency is an important …

infrastructure to alleviate these costs, a key policy question emerges: in a world with high volatility, what are the returns to … theory to capture port technology, with tools from demand estimation. We use our framework, together with a collection of … unveils three policy-relevant messages: (i) investing in port infrastructure can lead to substantial trade and welfare gains …

. We do so using detailed, near-universal data on shipping firms' new orders, secondary-market transactions, and demolition …-defined shipping sectors to corroborate our findings. Critically, uncertainty prompts firms to concentrate their fleets into narrower …

local ozone pollution, time-varying pollution due to port activity is arguably a randomly determined event uncorrelated with …

There were substantial fluctuations in the numbers of American overseas travelers, especially before World War II …

engine on skill demand and the wage structure in the merchant shipping industry. We find that the technical change created a …

I examine the outcomes of cases of entry by merchant shipping lines into established markets around the turn of the … century. These established markets are completely dominated by an incumbent cartel composed of several member shipping lines …