Similar Search Results

Analysis of transportation and logistics processes for soybeans in Brazil

Fliehr, Olivia - 2013

This study examines the relevance of Brazilian domestic transportation and logistics processes for agricultural bulk … impact of logistics and transportation on the competitiveness of soybeans in a national comparison, export processes starting … information from expert interviews. Experts belong to the transportation and logistics sector, to the sector of agricultural …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317707

Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution

Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004

This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324971

New Economic Geography

Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2004

Transportkosten für Agrargüter, räumliche Überschwappeffekte, die Existenz von nicht handelbaren Dienstleistungen und eine … ist, je höher die Transportkosten für Agrargüter sind, je mehr positive Spillovers zwischen den Regionen vorhanden sind …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263274

Genetic, cultural and geographical distances

Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - 2006

This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267771

The optimal distance to port for exporting firms

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim; Matthee, Marianne - 2008

Success in international trade depends, amongst other things, on distance from markets. Most new economic geography models focus on the distance between countries. In contrast much less theorizing and empirical analysis have focused on how distances within a country for instance due to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273519

Turkey and the Ankara Treaty of 1963: What can Trade Integration Do for Turkish Exports

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Herzer, Dierk; … - 2005

This paper investigates the trade effects of Turkey?s trade integration into the EU. To this end sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002 are examined concentrating on Turkey?s sixteen most important export sectors. Emphasis is placed on the role of price...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296392

Is distance a good proxy for transport costs? The case of competing transport modes

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2006

In this paper, we analyze separately the determinants of maritime transport and road transport costs for Spanish exports to Poland and Turkey (markets for which maritime and road transport are competing modes) and investigate the different effects of these costs on international trade. First, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300142

Electronic coordination in oligopolistic markets: Impact on transport costs and product differentiation

Bandulet, Martin; Morasch, Karl - 2002

Parameterbereiche existieren in denen die Unternehmen nach einer exogenen Senkung der Transportkosten die Produktdifferenzierung …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300398

Reciprocal dumping with Bertrand competition

Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - 2005

This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated goods. We show that welfare is a U-shaped function in the transport cost as long as trade occurs in equilibrium. With a Cournot duopoly trade can reduce welfare compared to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281461

Freight rates and the margins of intra-Latin American maritime trade

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Wilmsmeier, Gordon - 2010

This paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between maritime trade and transport cost in Latin America. The data available are disaggregated (SITC 5 digit level) maritime trade flows on trade routes within Latin America over the period 1999-2004. The contribution to the literature is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281811

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last