The World is not Yet Flat [electronic resource] : Transport Costs Matter! / Kristian Behrens.

Author/Creator:

Behrens, Kristian.

Other Title:

World Bank working papers.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.

Series:

Policy research working papers.
World Bank e-Library.

Format/Description:

Government document
Book
1 online resource (55 p.)

Local subjects:

Transport Costs. (search)
Trucking Rates. (search)
Geographic Concentration. (search)
International Trade Exposure. (search)
Input-Output Links. (search)

Summary:

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.

Contributor:

Behrens, Kristian.
Brown, W. Mark.
Bougna, Theophile.

Other format:

Print Version: Behrens, Kristian The World is not Yet Flat: Transport Costs Matter!

Publisher Number:

10.1596/1813-9450-7862

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

Connect to full text
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1810261

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