Quality trade and transportation costs
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.
Authors
- Toshihiro Okubo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2795-1706)
- Akira Sasahara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4384-0806)
Institutions
- Keio University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Economics Letters
- Published
- 2025-10-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112705
- Primary Topic
- Global trade and economics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00