Enhancing digital connectivity, advancing cross-border e-commerce (CE), and optimizing logistics performance (LP) are fundamental pillars for boosting trade flows between trading partners. However, the multifaceted impacts of digitalization, CE, and LP on China-Africa (C-A) trade remain...

The South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) area experiences rapid economic growth with an abundant population, expecting to increase the cargo transport demand. However, weak infrastructure and cross-border systems could hinder the future growth of the area. We examine the impact of...

This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...

The Russian economy will have to adjust its logistics to face the new reality. The operationali­zation of the multimodal International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is an important strategic part of it. This "pivot to the South" by Russia and other Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)...

Consumers access foreign goods by purchasing them domestically or shopping abroad. We present new facts on cross-border shopping by Swiss households showing, for example, that prices of identical products are lower in neighboring countries, cross-border shopping shares fall with distance to the...

Die Bedeutung der Logistik für eine leistungsfähige Wirtschaft und zufriedene Kunden ist spätestens seit den Krisen der vergangenen Jahre breiten Bevölkerungskreisen bewusst geworden. Die besondere Rolle des Güterverkehrs wird indessen oft nur nebensächlich beleuchtet, obwohl Güterverkehr...

This article exploits the creation of a paradigmatic multi-ethnic state, Yugoslavia, to examine if, to what extent, and why the effect of ethnic ties on trade costs changes over time. We compile and examine a panel of over 550,000 inter-urban price gaps spanning the area of Yugoslavia in the...

Because trucks in Bangladesh and India are not allowed to operate across the border, cargo is transloaded at the border, and Indian trucks traveling between northeast India and the rest of India must go around Bangladesh through the Siliguri Corridor, which significantly increases transport and...

The paper debates the role of customs administrations as national gatekeepers at border posts and the implications of borders on cross-border transactions by women in the informal sector. The discussion shall be on African borders which have been identified as thick and unresponsive to the needs...

Mit dem Warentransport sind zahlreiche negative externe Effekte verbunden. Aufgrund eines Marktversagens werden zu viele Güter über weite Strecken transportiert. Maßnahmen zur Internalisierung, wie die Einführung von Auflagen, Verboten sowie Steuern, Abgaben und handelbaren Zertifikaten,...

"China's land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world's longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China's borderlands, Shifting Sands takes in the full...

This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...

Eine hochentwickelte Transport- und Logistikinfrastruktur sowie ein effizienter und technologisch fortschrittlicher Logistiksektor sind zentrale Faktoren für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Volkswirtschaft. Sie ermöglichen die Entwicklung internationaler Wertschöpfungsketten und das...

This working paper examines the dynamics and trends of cross-border trading in the Ethio-Somaliland corridor. The Ethio-Somaliland corridor is not a mere geographic pathway for the transfer of goods and commodities but rather a transboundary space with ethnic and transethnic networks, official...

The Belt and Road Initiative (B&R) is aimed at fostering “peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit” among Asia, Europe and Africa, with China as a hub. It is expected to improve connectivity and increase cross-border civil and commercial activities of companies and individuals in...

Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to...