Roads and Trade: Evidence from the U.S

Gilles Duranton, Peter Morrow and Matthew Turner

Working Papers from University of Toronto, Department of Economics

Abstract: We estimate the effect of interstate highways on the level and composition of trade for us cities. Highways within cities have a large effect on the weight of city exports with an elasticity of approximately 0.5. We find little effect of highways on the total value of exports. Consistent with this, we find that cities with more highways specialize in sectors producing heavy goods.

Keywords: interstate highways; transportation costs; trade and specializartion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 R41 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: Unknown pages
Date: 2013-03-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-tre and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (36)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/public/workingPapers/tecipa-479.pdf Main Text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US (2014)
Working Paper: Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-479

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from University of Toronto, Department of Economics 150 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by RePEc Maintainer ().