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Domestic transport cost reductions and firms’ export behaviour
Transport infrastructure investment reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to establish and maintain contacts over larger distances. Spain has developed an ambitious road building programme over the last decades, which has considerably reduced transport costs to access European markets. In this paper we depart from the traditional aggregate approach in analysing the impacts of transport infrastructure investment. In particular, we examine the export decision of Spanish manufacturing firms and test how domestic transport cost reductions affect firms’ probability of becoming exporters. We estimate models that control for unobserved heterogeneity among firms, endogeneity and initial conditions problems. Our results provide some support for a positive effect of domestic transport improvements on firms’ exporting probability. However, the magnitude of this effects is small, being the strongest effect the one due to previous export experience which suggests high entry costs into export markets
Transport infraestructure, sunk costs and firms' export behaviour
Transport infrastructure investment reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to establish contacts over larger distances. We study the impact of transport-cost reductions on firms’ export behaviour, accounting for the role of entry costs and other firms’ characteristics. Using Spanish data we estimate dynamic probability models controlling for firms’ unobserved heterogeneity and for the simultaneity of firms’ export and location decisions. Our results provide support for a positive effect of domestic transport improvements on firms’ exporting probability for small and medium sized firms. We find a strong effect of previous export experience, suggesting high entry costs into export markets
Transport infraestructure, sunk costs and firms' export behaviour
Transport infrastructure investment reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to establish contacts over larger distances. We study the impact of transport-cost reductions on firms’ export behaviour, accounting for the role of entry costs and other firms’ characteristics. Using Spanish data we estimate dynamic probability models controlling for firms’ unobserved heterogeneity and for the simultaneity of firms’ export and location decisions. Our results provide support for a positive effect of domestic transport improvements on firms’ exporting probability for small and medium sized firms. We find a strong effect of previous export experience, suggesting high entry costs into export markets.Export decision, Transport infrastructure, Accessibility, Dynamic panel data
Parentesco y regulación del matrimonio entre los indios del antiguo Michoacán, México.
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Inequality for wage earners and self-employed : evidence from panel data
In this paper we study the evolution of income inequality for employees and self-employed workers. We highlight the importance of separately analyze these different sources of income to gain a broader understanding of inequality. Using Spanish panel data on income and consumption from the ECPF for the period 1987-96, we decompose income shocks into a permanent and a transitory component. We find that there are noticeable differences in the evolution of income inequality, as well as in the relative importance of the permanent and transitory components across these groups. Our results points that the evolution of inequality can be basically explained by movements in the transitory component of income for the self-employed, while for the employees it is mainly driven by the permanent component, specially at the end of the period. Given these disparities, it seems that these two sources of income should be studied separately and that different policies are suitable for each group.
A Case Study of Rural Development in Ecuador, an Analysis and Assessment of the Quero-Huachi-Pelileo Project.
Inequality for Wage Earners and Self-Employed: Evidence from Panel Data
Published as an article in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, vol. 71, issue 4, pages 491-518.transitory income inequality, consumption, permanent income inequality, self-employment, panel data
A beyond mean field study of Bose gases in a double-well potential with a Feshbach resonance
The Bose-Hubbard model coupled to a Feshbach resonance is studied. Quantum phase transitions are analyzed within a beyond mean field framework in order to get finite size corrections to the simple mean field approach. Analytical results for the ground state energy and the first few energy gaps are presented
Domestic Transport Cost Reductions and Firms’ Export Behaviour
Transport infrastructure investment reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to
establish and maintain contacts over larger distances. Spain has developed an ambitious
road building programme over the last decades, which has considerably reduced
transport costs to access European markets. In this paper we depart from the traditional
aggregate approach in analysing the impacts of transport infrastructure investment. In
particular, we examine the export decision of Spanish manufacturing firms and test how
domestic transport cost reductions affect firms’ probability of becoming exporters. We
estimate models that control for unobserved heterogeneity among firms, endogeneity
and initial conditions problems. Our results provide some support for a positive effect of
domestic transport improvements on firms’ exporting probability. However, the
magnitude of this effects is small, being the strongest effect the one due to previous
export experience which suggests high entry costs into export markets.Peer reviewe
Domestic transport infrastructure and firms’ export market participation
Investment in transport infrastructure reduces the cost of distance and enables firms to establish contacts over larger distances. Using data from a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms and geographic information system techniques, this article studies the impact of domestic transport cost reductions on firms’ export market participation, taking into account the role of entry costs and other firm characteristics. We estimate dynamic probability models, controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity of firms and for the simultaneity of firms’ export and location decisions. Our results demonstrate a positive effect of domestic transport infrastructure improvements on small and medium-sized firms’ probability of exportingResearch funding from the
FundaciĂłn RamĂłn Areces and DGI, Spanish Ministry of
Education, grant no. SEJ2006-05710/ECON, ECO2009-11165, SEJ2007-63098 and SEJ2006-08063 is gratefully
acknowledged.Publicad
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