Are Matched Partner Trade Statistics a Usable Measure of Transportation Costs

By David L. Hummels, Volodymyr Lugovskyy. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics

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A Search Cost Perspective on Formation and Duration of Trade (2008, methodology): “…© Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008 Transportation costs are measured as the c.i.f./f.o.b. ratio for US imports reported in Feenstra (1996) and Feenstra et al. (2002).11 According to Hummels and Lugovskyy (2006) this is a reasonable measure of transportation costs when calculated at the product level.”
Post-production services and optimal integration strategies for the multinational firm (2016, methodology): “22Many researchers measured trade costs by comparing the difference of the valuation of the same flow reported by both exporter and importer (Brainard (1997); Helpman et al. (2004); Hummels and Lugovskyy (2006)) been questioned.”
Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data (2011, unknown): “However, the c.i.f./f.o.b. data should be treated with caution since their quality is questionable (see Hummels and Lugovskyy, 2006).”
What Separates Us? Sources of Resistance to Globalization (2013, background): “We have to be cautious about all of these estimates because Hummels and Lugovskyy (2006) show that matched CIF and FOB data from different reporters do not yield reliable measures of the CIF/FOB ratio.”
Markups, quality, and transport costs (2012, methodology): “The intuition for this formula is 19The elasticity of the cif/fob margins for all countries is estimated to be 0.045 (Hummels and Lugovskyy, 2006, table 6).”
Gravity Redux: Estimation of Gravity-Equation Coefficients, Elasticities of Substitution, and General Equilibrium Comparative Statics under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs (2013, background): “Moreover, it is well known that ad valorem bilateral cif-fob ratios and tariff rates are prone to considerable measurement error; see Anderson and van Wincoop (2004) and Hummels and Lugovskyy (2006) on the former and Fisman and Wei (2004) and Javorcik and Narciso (2008) on the latter.”
Product differentiation and duration of US import trade (2006, background): “When calculated at the product level this ratio is a reasonable measure for transportation costs (Hummels and Lugovskyy, 2006).”