Quality trade and transportation costs
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates quality trade using a declaration level customs dataset from 2014 to 2020. We find that high quality products tend to be traded with higher per-unit freight costs, lower ad valorem tariff rates, and with countries with higher GDP per capita, even after controlling firm-specific and product-specific time-invariant factors.
Source: Economics Letters
Authors: Toshihiro Okubo, Akira Sasahara
Institution: Keio University
Language: English
Topic: Global trade and economics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,030
Awards: Globalization, Climate Change, and Regional Economies: Interactions and Propagation of the Shock, Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the International Specialization in Japan and East Asia in the Era of Covid-19 and Beyond, Global economy and digital economy in the post-Covid era: International trade, economic geography, and natural disasters
OpenAlex ID: W4415680936