In this paper we claim that distance alone is a poor proxy for international transport costs in empirical studies. We … transport technology, which lowers their marginal costs and as a consequence, equilibrium transport prices. Transport costs thus … effect of the investment decision on transport costs biases empirical results. The empirical estimations rely on newly …

and economic crisis in 2008.Whereas the field of maritime logistics started to recover from the beginningof 2010 the …

has a significantly positive effect on freight costs by air transportation. However, I find the puzzling results that …Geographic distance is a standard proxy for transport costs under the simple assumption that freight fees increase … monotonically over space. Using the Japanese Census of Logistics, this paper examines the extent to which transport distance and …

. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their …