EXPORTS AND LOGISTICS

Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard deviation improvement in logistics.Most countries are much smaller than average however, so the typical effect is only 6%. ....

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Year of publication:	2009-07-01
Authors:	Behar, Alberto ; Manners, Phil ; Nelson, Benjamin D.
Institutions:	University <Oxford> / Department of Economics
Subject:	Logistik \| logistics \| Export \| export \| Heterogenität

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Series:	University of Oxford - Deparment of Economics - Working Paper Series DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES ; Number 439
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	F10 - Trade. General ; F13 - Commercial Policy; Protection; Promotion; Trade Negotiations ; F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade ; F17 - Trade Forecasting and Simulation ; O24 - Trade Policy; Factor Movement Policy; Foreign Exchange Policy ; Management and organisation. Other aspects ; Production and Logistics, Operations Management ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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