All aboard: The effects of port development

David Nagy, Cesar Ducruet, Juhász, Réka and Claudia Steinwender

No 15487, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Seaports facilitate the fast flow of goods across space, but ports also entail local costs borne by host cities. We use the introduction of containerized shipping to explore the effects of port development. At the local level, we find that seaport development increases city population by making a city more attractive, but this market access effect is offset by costs which make the city less attractive. At the aggregate level, we find that the local costs associated with port development are heterogeneous across cities and reduce aggregate welfare gains, which however are still positive and substantial.

Keywords: Containerization; Quantitative economic geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F6 O33 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11
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