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Global Logistics Indicators, Supply Chain Metrics, and Bilateral Trade Patterns
Hausman, Warren H.; Lee, Hau L.; Subramanian, Uma - 2013
Past research into the determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment...
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How Does India's Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Orissa
Bell, Clive - 2017
poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine …
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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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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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Farther on Down the Road : Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Storeygard, Adam - 2017
-Saharan African cities, using two new data sources. Specifically, it asks how important access to a large port city is for the income … cities near a major port to increase by 6 percent relative to otherwise identical cities 500 kilometers farther away. Cities … connected to the port by paved roads are chiefly affected by transport costs to the port, while cities connected to the port by …
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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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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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Is Increasing Inorganic Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa a Profitable Proposition? Evidence from Nigeria
Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O. - 2020
Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, this belief is predicated on the assumption that it is profitable to use rates higher than currently observed. However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence to support this notion. Using a...
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