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Fricciones en el comercio interregional: una aproximación basada en datos municipales
Verduras, Jorge Díaz Lanchas y Carlos Llano - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2014
The border effect literature emphasizes the negative effect of distance on the international trade flows in favor of a greater proportion of trade within the national countries. However, recent works have shown that the border effect arises from a methodological error in measuring the distances...
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How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge
Volpe Martincus, Christian; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 149-153
In this paper we provide estimates of the effects of international transport costs on firms’ exports and disentangle the channels of these effects. In so doing, we use a unique dataset consisting of highly disaggregated transaction-level trade and transport cost data and, in order to account...
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Consecuencias económicas del enclaustramiento marítimo sobre las exportaciones bolivianas
Burgoa, Rodrigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In the actual paper, it is analyzed the economic impact that landlockedness causes to Bolivia since more than a century. It is found that economic damages are enormous and they did not end, yet. Applying some estimations through econometric models, it is observed that every year, Bolivia loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113632
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Measures of International Transport Cost for OECD Countries
Golub, Stephen S.; Tomasik, Brian - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or other balance of payments data employed in...
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Shaky roads and trembling exports: Assessing the trade effects of domestic infrastructure using a natural experiment
Volpe Martincus, Christian; Blyde, Juan - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 1, pp. 148-161
Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data … potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship between internal infrastructure and trade. In this paper, we overcome … the earthquake that took place in this country in 2010 as an exogenous source of variation in available infrastructure and …
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India's surge in modern services exports: Empirics for policy
Sahoo, Pravakar; Dash, Ranjan Kumar - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 6, pp. 1082-1100
-density, financial development, physical infrastructure and institutions are the key drivers of India's MSEs along with the world demand … supply side factors such as education, infrastructure, financial sector deepening, governance and broad-band tele-density to …
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Bridging Trade Barriers: Evaluating Models of Multi-Product Exporters
Arnarson, Björn Thor - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2015
In this paper we investigate the impact of a decrease in trade costs on firm decisions to export. The main contribution of this paper is to evaluate empirically the theoretical predictions of several models of multi-product exporters. The focus is on the firm export entry decision and the within...
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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Marketplace
Leamer, Edward E.; Lundborg, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600206
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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Marketplace.
Leamer, E.E.; Lundborg, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
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Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in Latin America: Lessons from Asia
Kotschwar, Barbara - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2012
In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment … paper examines transport and communications infrastructure initiatives in Latin American and Asian regional trade …
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