Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transport costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per capita income. For most Latin American countries transport costs are a greater barrier to U.S. markets than import tariffs. The authors investigate the determinants of the costs of shipping to the United States using a large database (more than 300,000 observations a year) on shipments of products at the...
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2002/02/28
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Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики
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WPS2781
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2010/07/01
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Maritime transport costs and port efficiency
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transport cost