Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …

Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … of the gravity model. Importantly, we still observe significant and non-linear effects of infrastructure on bilateral …