Arbeitspapier

Endogenous Transport Prices and Trade Imbalances

According to economic theory, imbalances in trade flows affect transport prices because (some) carriers have to return without cargo from the low demand region to the high demand region. Therefore, transport prices in the high demand direction have to exceed those in the low demand direction. This implies that transport costs, and therefore trade costs, are fundamentally endogenous with respect to trade imbalances. We study this effect using transport prices for the inland waterway transport market in north-west Europe. We find that imbalances in trade flows have substantial effects on transport prices. We estimate that a one standard deviation increase in the trade imbalance from region A to region B decreases transport prices from A to B by about 8 percent.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 08-088/3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Thema
Imbalances in trade flows
trade costs
inland waterway transport market
Außenwirtschaftliches Gleichgewicht
Transportkosten
Binnenschifffahrt
Westeuropa

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jonkeren, Olaf
Demirel, Erhan
van Ommeren, Jos
Rietveld, Piet
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2008

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jonkeren, Olaf
  • Demirel, Erhan
  • van Ommeren, Jos
  • Rietveld, Piet
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2008

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