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Domestic road infrastructure and international trade : evidence from Turkey
Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu - 2014
Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for … accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and …. Two results emerge. First, we estimate that this road infrastructure project accounts for 15 percent of the export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251657
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Transportation and trade interactions : a trade facilitation perspective
Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2017 - This version: March 2017
Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625949
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Shipping inside the box : containerization and trade
Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu - 2017
We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage to shipment, destination and firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597265
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Better together: how digital connectivity and regulation reduce trade costs
Bellucci, Chiara; Rubínová, Stela; Piermartini, Roberta - 2023 - Manuscript date: 14 November 2023
to digital infrastructure, services and data. We assess the impact of digital connectivity, proxied by the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432117
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The Pacific's connectivity and its trade implications
Helble, Matthias - 2014
their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity … for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … datasets. One contains all shipping connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world; the second all flight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402678
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Impact of trade facilitation indicators on trade flows in transport corridors of CAREC region and policy implications
Sudan, Falendra Kumar; Mehta, Balwant Singh - 2024
flows. The bilateral trade inflows are likely to boost trade volume and can be used for the development of infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512472
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Using observable trade data to measure bilateral trade costs in sub-Saharan Africa
Turkson, Festus Ebo - 2012
Following closely the analytical approach adopted by Head and Mayer (2004) and Novy (2010), this paper derives a micro-founded bilateral trade cost measure for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a function of observable domestic and inter-national trade data. The derived measure of trade cost by Novy...
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Import processing and trade costs
Carballo, Jeronimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597016
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Import processing and trade costs
Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2023
We estimate import processing costs based on the time it takes to import. Our theory extends existing time-cost measures to account for uncertainty in import processing. We use detailed, highly disaggregated data on import processing dates and import values to provide evidence for our theory and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461570
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The impact of distance in seaborne trade : an analysis of bilateral container transport flows
Biermann, Franziska - 2012
A significant part of world trade volume is transported by container ship today. Growing world trade will enforce … has been quite persistent in world trade. For container transport, the impact might be smaller, since it takes place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680612