Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (55 p)
Serie:
World Bank E-Library Archive
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Behrens, Kristian The World is not Yet Flat: Transport Costs Matter!
Kurzfassung:
The paper provides evidence of the effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and continuous measures of geographic concentration. The findings show that, controlling for international trade exposure and input-output links, increasing trucking rates are significantly associated with declining geographic concentration. The effect is large: changes in trucking rates explain around 20 percent of the observed decline in geographic concentration of Canadian manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2008
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-7862
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