Facilitating international production networks: The role of trade logistics

By D. Saslavsky, Ben Shepherd. 2012

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Networked trade in parts and components is more sensitive to the importer's logistics performance than is final goods trade. The difference between the two trade semi-elasticities is over 45%, which is quantitatively important. We also find that logistics performance is particularly important for trade among developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region, which is where the emergence of production networks has been most pronounced. Logistics performance is also more important for South–South trade than for South–North trade. Our results suggest that developing country policymakers can support the development of international production networks by improving trade logistics performance.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7d56ef88e304a95b75406316879feda9834448ac

Citations in the corpus

• Services productivity, trade policy and manufacturing exports (2017, unknown): “…that impact on transport and distribution services have the largest negative effects on manufactured export performance are consistent with both theory and evidence on the drivers of supply chain trade and international integration (Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez, 2014; Saslavsky and Shepherd, 2014).”