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studies attempted to answer this question using ad hoc measures of port efficiency that do not control for the actual use of … port assets or measures that can be very noisy. To avoid these problems, this paper builds a measure of economic efficiency … Western Pacific Oceans in terms of their port efficiency, and assesses the effect of increased efficiency. It finds that …
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costs. The two can be regarded as alternative indicators of trade efficiency, because both indicators improve when the trade …
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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