Shaky Roads and Trembling Exports: Assessing the Trade Effects of Domestic Infrastructure Using a Natural Experiment
By Christian Volpe Martincus, J. Blyde. 2012
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Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship between internal infrastructure and trade. In this paper, we overcome these limitations by combining firm-level data with detailed geo-referenced information on Chile and by exploiting the earthquake that took place in this country in 2010 as an exogenous source of variation in available infrastructure and thereby in transport costs. We find that diminished transportation infrastructure had a significant negative impact on firms' exports.
Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics
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- A. Cusolito
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- Yishen Liu
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- Uwe Deichmann
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Citations in the corpus
- Domestic Road Infrastructure and International Trade: Evidence from Turkey (2016, background): “VolpeMartincus et al. (2013) use historical routes in Peru to instrument for the location of new roads andfinda sizeable impact onfirm-level exports.”
- Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, methodology): “The Arc View program is used to identify the least-distance itinerary between each municipality of origin and each port, whereby this distance is calculated by adding up the different arcs that connect the respective intermediate end-nodes (see Volpe Martincus and Blyde, 2013).”
- Transport Policies and Development (2015, background): “Trade strongly depends on transportation networks as evidenced by an earthquake in Chile which had a negative impact on firms’ exports (Volpe Martincus & Blyde, 2013).”