Does distance still matter for agricultural trade?

Christian Hubert Ebeke () and Sabine Mireille Ntsama

No 31, AGRODEP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This paper quantifies the average effect of distance on bilateral agricultural trade using a large sample of countries. We focus on identifying time-varying effects of distance on trade to test whether the marginal effect has gradually diminished in recent years; to do this, we use a sample that includes more than 200 countries and spans the period 1995-2013. A variety of robustness checks and model specifications are used. The results suggest that the “distance effect†significantly explains bilateral agricultural trade flows.

Keywords: models; transport; trade policies; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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