The World Is Not Yet Flat
Transport Costs Matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19313610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristian Behrens (0000-0003-3595-6443, Université du Québec à Montréal, National Research University Higher School of Economics, CIRPÉE, and CEPR), W MARK BROWN (0000-0002-2424-6967, Statistics Canada), Théophile Bougna (Université du Québec à Montréal and World Bank) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 712-724 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_00729 |
| OpenAlex | W3123000386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
The paper provides evidence of the \n effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic \n concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level \n commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to \n construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and \n continuous measures of geographic concentration. The \n findings show that, controlling for international trade \n exposure and input-output links, increasing trucking rates \n are significantly associated with declining geographic \n concentration. The effect is large: changes in trucking \n rates explain around 20 percent of the observed decline in \n geographic concentration of Canadian manufacturing \n industries between 1992 and 2008
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |