The Role of Innovations in Global Trade: The Shipping Container

Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Qiuhan Sun

On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: A simple trade innovation—the use of shipping containers—may have contributed to the rapid expansion of global trade over the past 50 years.

Keywords: trade; exports; imports; trade balance; trade deficits; trade surplus; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-28
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