Road Infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia: Does Network Quality Affect Trade?

The authors present a new database of minimum distance road routes connecting 138 cities in 27 countries across Europe and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is robustly associated with higher intraregional trade flows. Gravity model simulations suggest that an ambi...

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Main Authors:	Shepherd, Ben, Wilson, John S.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE VALUE AD VALOREM ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AVERAGE TARIFF BILATERAL TRADE BORDER CROSSINGS BOTTLENECKS CAPITAL GOODS CENTRAL ASIAN CHANGES IN TRADE CONGESTION COST ELASTICITIES CURRENCY CURRENT ENVIRONMENT CUSTOMS CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES CUSTOMS FORMALITIES CUSTOMS PROCEDURES DRIVING ECONOMIC WELFARE ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EXPORTING COUNTRIES EXPORTS FOREIGN INVESTMENT FUEL GRAVITY MODEL GRAVITY MODELS HIGH TRANSPORT IMPACT OF TRADE IMPORTING COUNTRIES INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INTERNATIONAL TRADE INTRAREGIONAL TRADE LENGTH OF ROAD POLICY RESEARCH QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS REGIONAL TRADE ROAD ROAD COSTS ROAD IMPROVEMENT ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD NETWORK ROAD QUALITY ROAD TRANSPORT ROADS ROUTE ROUTES SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TARIFF LEVELS TARIFF REDUCTION TARIFF REDUCTIONS TRADE COSTS TRADE DATA TRADE DETERMINANTS TRADE FACILITATION TRADE FLOW DATA TRADE FLOWS TRADE POLICIES TRADE POLICY TRADE VALUES TRAINS TRANSIT TRANSIT CORRIDORS TRANSIT COUNTRIES TRANSIT ROUTES TRANSPORT COSTS TRANSPORT DATA TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT TRUE TYPES OF ROAD UNDUE INFLUENCE WESTERN EUROPE WORLD TRADE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/12/7289532/road-infrastructure-europe-central-asia-network-quality-affect-trade http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9262

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Road Infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia: Does Network Quality Affect Trade?

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