The World is Not Yet Flat

• Tác giả: Kristian Behrens
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 523.13 Specific celestial bodies and phenomena
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 294873
• Chủ đề: 1. geographic concentration; 2. input-ouput links; 3. international trade exposure; 4. transport costs; 5. trucking rates

Tóm tắt

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.