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All Aboard: The Effects of Port Development

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  • César Ducruet
  • Réka Juhász
  • Dávid Krisztián Nagy
  • Claudia Steinwender

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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.

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  • César Ducruet & Réka Juhász & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Claudia Steinwender, 2020. "All Aboard: The Effects of Port Development," NBER Working Papers 28148, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28148
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    • F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General

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