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How Do Differing Standards Increase Trade Costs? The Case of Pallets

Raballand, Gaël - 2017

The pallet is a platform used for storing, handling, and transporting products. There are hundreds of different pallet sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs. We select this case because pallets are used all...

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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010

Arvis, Jean-François - 2017

The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...

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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2017

The authors develop a framework for studying trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated products. In their model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good and make a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution...

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Deals Versus Rules : Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate it

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017

Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. This paper … argues that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals: firm-specific policy actions that … Africa. Strikingly, the gap between de jure and de facto conditions grows with the formal regulatory burden. The evidence …

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Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment : The Potential Impact of Post-Agoa Scenarios for Lesotho

Maliszewska, Maryla - 2019

This paper provides a forward-looking view of trade and its relevance for Lesotho?s medium- and long-term development. It does this through computable general equilibrium analysis of potential impacts based on specific trade-related scenarios. The scenarios include the potential loss of American...

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Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico

Blankespoor, Brian - 2017

This paper estimates the impacts of road improvements on local employment and specialization in Mexico for 1986-2014, through changes in access to domestic markets and travel costs to ports and the U.S. border. Instrumenting for road placement endogeneity and addressing the recursion problem in...

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Market Size, Sunk Costs of Entry, and Transport Costs : An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Demand-Side Factors versus Supply-Side Factors on Manufacturing Productivity

Jones, Patricia - 2019

This paper uses plant-level, panel data from the Ethiopian manufacturing census to estimate the effects of demand-side and supply-side factors on industrywide aggregate productivity. The paper focuses on the effects of three factors: (1) local market size, (2) the value of transportation costs...

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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Storeygard, Adam - 2017

Sub-Saharan Africa since the majority of its population growth over the next few decades is expected to be in urban areas …

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How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa

Bell, Clive - 2017

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine received them between January 2007 and December 2009...

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Explaining High Transport Costs within Malawi - Bad Roads or Lack of Trucking Competition?

Lall, Somik V. - 2016

What are the main determinants of transport costs: network access or competition among transport providers? The focus in the transport sector has often been on improving the coverage of "hard" infrastructure, whereas in reality the cost of transporting goods is quite sensitive to the extent of...

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