Published in:World Bank Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 7862
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1 Online-Ressource (55 p)
Language:
English
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 17, 2016 erstellt
Description:
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