The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!

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 valore...

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Main Authors:	Behrens, Kristian, Brown, W. Mark, Bougna, Theophile
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	transport costs trucking rates geographic concentration international trade exposure input-ouput links globalization commodity trade logistics
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26868018/world-not-yet-flat-transport-costs-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25307

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spelling	okr-10986-253072021-04-23T14:04:29Z The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter! Behrens, Kristian Brown, W. Mark Bougna, Theophile transport costs trucking rates geographic concentration international trade exposure input-ouput links globalization commodity trade logistics 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. 2016-11-01T16:25:19Z 2016-11-01T16:25:19Z 2016-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26868018/world-not-yet-flat-transport-costs-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25307 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7862 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Canada
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Behrens, Kristian Brown, W. Mark Bougna, Theophile
author_facet	Behrens, Kristian Brown, W. Mark Bougna, Theophile
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title	The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!
title_short	The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!
title_full	The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!
title_fullStr	The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!
title_full_unstemmed	The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!
title_sort	world is not yet flat : transport costs matter!
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/10/26868018/world-not-yet-flat-transport-costs-matter http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25307
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The World is Not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!

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