The Determinants of Intra-Oceanian Imports from 2001 to 2015: A Panel Gravity Model Approach

Montant, Gil

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“…Finally, the common language has an impact on soybean trade and confirms the colonial effects [17,59]. Many countries have Spanish and English as the main idioms indicating the cultural and historical presence in this trade.…”

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“…The main differences are in the basic elements of gravity models as GDP, where both are not related to soybean trade, and common language presented a negative sign. The result may be related to the fact that the PPML does not exclude bilateral observations with zero trade as in the log transformation [58,59] capturing properly the great presence of China on the soybean market. The PPML model presents a high R 2 level (0.971).…”

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“…We adopted this model specification to run the panel data techniques. After that, following the concepts established by Silva and Tenreyro [58] and Montant [59], we applied one variant based on Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) where exports do not have applied the logarithm (Equation ( 4)).…”

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“…The goal of this second model is to compare the initial results with the PPML, an alternative estimator for gravity models [17] that leads to robust estimates even if there is heteroskedasticity and it is not based on the logarithm of trade but on its level [59,60], creating a second check for FE results.…”

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The Impact of Logistics Performance on Argentina, Brazil, and the US Soybean Exports from 2012 to 2018: A Gravity Model Approach

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Soybean is one of the main sources of protein directly and indirectly in human nutrition, and it is highly dependent on logistics to connect country growers and international markets. Although recent studies deal with the impact of logistics on international trade, this impact in agricultural commodities is still an open research question. Moreover, these studies usually do not consider the influence of all components of the logistics on trade. This paper, therefore, aims at identifying the role of logistics performance in soybean exports among Argentina, Brazil, the US and their trading partners from 2012 to 2018. Using an extended gravity model, we examine whether the indicators of the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI), adopted as a proxy of logistics efficiency, are an important determinant of bilateral soybean trade facilitation. The results lead to the conclusion that it is necessary to analyze the LPI throughout its indicators because they may affect trade differently. The novelty of this article is to provide an analysis of the impact of different logistics aspects on commodity trade, more specifically in the soybean case. Finally, regarding the model results, logistics infrastructure has a positive and significant correlation with soybean trade as supposed in most of the literature.

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“…2 Several recent articles in the ITJ have looked at how other regional trade agreements have affected trade (Kaitibie and Rakotoarisoa 2017;Montant 2020). came into effect.…”

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The International Trade Journal

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Dear Readers,Welcome to the fourth issue of The International Trade Journal (ITJ)'s thirty-fifth volume. The articles in this issue focus on trade and investment in sub-Saharan Africa. They study how regional trade agreements affect growth, how foreign direct investment affects growth, the demand for imports of goods and services, and how exporting and importing affect firm performance.The first article in this issue, by Francis Ejones, Frank W. Agbola, and Amir Mahmood, looks at how joining the East African Community (EAC) affected growth in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. 1 The study finds that, on average, growth was faster after these countries joined the EAC. The effects were not uniform, however, with Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda seeing greater gains than the other countries. In contrast to the EAC, the authors did not find consistent gains from joining either the larger Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) or the World Trade Organization (WTO).The second article, by Simplice A. Asongu, Joseph Nnanna, and Paul N. Acha-Anyi, looks at how openness to foreign investment and trade affect growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Using aggregate data from 25 countries in the region, they regress growth on foreign direct investment, exports, and imports. They find that foreign direct investment and trade are both associated with faster growth. However, they also find that exports and imports moderate the gains from foreign direct investment.The third article, by Clement Agonyim Asaana and Daniel Sakyi, looks at how aggregate expenditures, relative import prices, and foreign exchange reserves affect demand for imports of goods and services in 32 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Using a system GMM estimator, they find that all of these factors affect demand for imports of goods. In contrast, neither relative import prices nor foreign exchange reserves affect imports of services.The final article in this issue, by Luke Emeka Okafor, looks at how exporting and importing affect firm performance in Ghana. 2 The author argues that although exporting might improve productivity, the gains might depend on 1 Several additional articles in the ITJ have looked at how other regional trade agreements have affected growth and trade. These include studies looking at the Gulf Cooperation Council (Kaitibie and Rakotoarisoa 2017), the North American Free Trade Agreement (Hernandez-Trillo 2018; Nguyen 2016), and the Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (Montant 2020). 2 Two recent articles in the ITJ have looked at the effect of intermediate inputs on firm performance. Sharma ( 2014) finds that Indian firms that use imported inputs are more productive than firms that do not. Okafor (2021) finds that imported inputs improve firm performance only for firms with sufficient absorptive capacity.

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The Determinants of Intra-Oceanian Imports from 2001 to 2015: A Panel Gravity Model Approach

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The Impact of Logistics Performance on Argentina, Brazil, and the US Soybean Exports from 2012 to 2018: A Gravity Model Approach

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