How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2014
Volume: 123
Issue: 2
Pages: 149-153

Score contribution per author:

0.251 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

In this paper we provide estimates of the effects of international transport costs on firms’ exports and disentangle the channels of these effects. In so doing, we use a unique dataset consisting of highly disaggregated transaction-level trade and transport cost data and, in order to account for endogeneity, we exploit the exogenous variation in these costs associated with the non-trade related closure of the main bridge connecting two countries.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:123:y:2014:i:2:p:149-153
Journal Field
General
Author Count
4
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2026-01-25