Exports and International Logistics*

Behar, Alberto; Manners, Philip; Nelson, Benjamin

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00715.x

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“…In contrast, comparative statics in our study explicitly account for firm heterogeneity, general equilibrium and the interactions between the two. Both these features are considered by Behar, Manners & Nelson (2011) in their investigation of logistics quality and exports.…”

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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Behar

Nelson

2014

Review of Economics and Statistics

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We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and countryselection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by multilateral resistance. We develop Taylor approximated multilateral resistance terms with which to capture the comparative static effects of changes in trade costs. For isolated bilateral changes in trade frictions, multilateral resistance effects are small for most countries. However, if all countries reduce their trade frictions, the impact of multilateral resistance is so strong that bilateral trade falls in most cases, despite the larger trade elasticities implied by firm heterogeneity. As a consequence, the worldwide trade response, though positive, is much lower.

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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Behar

Nelson

2014

Review of Economics and Statistics

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“…To our knowledge, the only others are Adam and Cobham (), Behar and Nelson (forthcoming), Behar et al (forthcoming) and Egger et al (). Considering the large number of papers on gravity models, this is remarkably low.…”

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“…Constructing the terms may be an attractive option if the variable of interest is monadic because such country specific variables, for example business environment variables, cannot be identified when using time‐and‐country dummies (Behar et al, forthcoming, 2013). …”

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Does it Matter Who You Sign With? Comparing the Impacts ofNorth–South andSouth–South Trade Agreements on Bilateral Trade

Behar

Cirera-i-Crivillé

2013

Rev International Economics

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Free trade agreements (FTAs) lead to a rise in bilateral trade regardless of whether the signatories are developed or developing countries. Furthermore, the percentage increase in bilateral trade is higher for South-South agreements than for North-South agreements. The results are robust across a number of gravity model specifications in which we control for the endogeneity of FTAs (with bilateral fixed effects) and also take account of multilateral resistance in both estimation (with country-time fixed effects) and comparative statics (analytically). Our analytical model shows that multilateral resistance dampens the impact of FTAs on trade by less in South-South agreements than in North-South agreements, which accentuates the difference implied by our gravity model coefficients, and that this difference becomes larger as the number of signatories rises. For example, allowing for lags and multilateral resistance, a four-country North-South agreement raises bilateral trade by 53% while the analogous South-South impact is 107%.

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“…The effects on neighboring countries, called neighborhood effects, can include spillovers in knowledge (economic and social), stability, institutions, migration, investment and trade. Behar et al (2009) find that improvements in logistics quality can increase exports from a country as well as from its landlocked neighbors. Many sources of spillovers and neighborhood effects have been documented, although not specifically for sub‐Saharan Africa 1 .…”

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Distance to Growing Markets and Sub‐Saharan African Exports*

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Manners²

2010

African Development Review

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A typical person in sub-Saharan Africa is a long way from world markets and is further from world markets now than in 1980. This partly reflects slower growth within Africa than for the world as a whole. Despite slower growth in Africa, African exports have become increasingly regionalized. By 2005, a country in Africa typically exported more than twice as much to a country in its own region as would be expected based on economic size and bilateral distance. This regionalization was not present in the early 1980s and has become stronger over time. We find evidence of positive neighborhood effects through exports, but sub-Saharan countries benefit less from growth in their own region than this typical relationship indicates. Given the small share of exports destined to their neighbors, low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa experience relatively modest export growth from growth in the region. These factors imply that African countries are unlikely to pull each other out of poverty and a regional focus may be less effective than a focus on countries outside of the region.

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Exports and International Logistics*

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Does it Matter Who You Sign With? Comparing the Impacts ofNorth–South andSouth–South Trade Agreements on Bilateral Trade

Distance to Growing Markets and Sub‐Saharan African Exports*

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