Arbeitspapier
Transport costs, trade, and geographic concentration: Evidence from Canada
Our objective is threefold. First, we explain how to estimate transport costs and the geographic concentration of industries using trucking microdata and geocoded plant-level data. Second, we document that transport costs explain between 25% to 57% of the observed relationship between trade and distance across Canada's economic regions. Last, we show that changes in transport costs have a substantial impact on geographic concentration patterns for vertically linked industries, depending on the strength of the links. A one standard deviation increase in transport costs leads to a 0.02 standard deviation decrease in geographic concentration for industry pairs at the bottom decile of the input-output coefficient distribution, whereas the corresponding effect at the top decile is a 0.02 standard deviation increase. This gap between weakly and strongly linked industries stands up to a wide range of specifications and is robust to instrumental variables estimations.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Document de travail ; No. 2017-09
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
- Thema
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Transport costs
trade
geographic concentration
Canada
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Behrens, Kristian
Brown, W. Mark
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques
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Montréal
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2017
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Behrens, Kristian
- Brown, W. Mark
- Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques
Entstanden
- 2017