Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Celbis M.G. 
Author-Name: Nijkamp P. 
Author-Name: Poot J. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Infrastructure and the international export performance of Turkish regions
Abstract: We estimate the Anderson and van Wincoop model of trade by using the  data on the bilateral export flows from 26 Turkish regions to 180  countries for the years 2002 through to 2010. Regional transportation  and communication infrastructure capacity, the positioning of point  infrastructure in a region, and geography are explicitly accounted for.  Our results highlight that land infrastructure, air transport capacity,  and private maritime infrastructure presence, together with the distance  of regional economies to exit nodes such as ports and airports, are  important determinants of export performance. Based on our preferred  regression where multilateral resistance terms are accounted for, we  estimate that increases in the current land infrastructure, air  transport capacity, and number of private ports of 1 per cent increases  exports approximately by 0.38 per cent, 0.14 per cent, and 0.045 per  cent respectively.     Keywords Infrastructure; trade; regions; transportation costs
Keywords: Empirical Studies of Trade; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure; Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy; General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data); Transportation Systems: General; Regional Development Planning and Policy; 
Classification-JEL: F14; O18; O24; R10; R40; R58; .
Series:  Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 021
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/49145320-1f44-4638-aa6d-7c6411b52939
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File-Size: 684813
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014021