Transport costs and development of trade and international production

Tomasz Białowąs

Abstract


This paper analyses the impact of transport costs on development of international fragmentation of production and trade. Transport costs are important determinants of eXport processing trade, which is a typical part of regional production network. When trade costs of intermediate inputs fall, different stages of the production process can take place in different places.

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transport costs; international trade; production fragmentation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/h.2014.48.1.25
Date of publication: 2015-04-27 14:05:01
Date of submission: 2015-04-14 21:03:04


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