Quantifying the relationship between seaborne trade and shipping freight rates: A Bayesian vector autoregressive approach

We employ a Bayesian Vector Autoregressive methodology, to counter the issue of data availability, and explore the relationship between seaborne commodity trade and freight rates. Our results show three important insights: first and foremost, the quantity of seaborne commodity trade has a strong imp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nektarios A. Michail, Konstantinos D. Melas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:Maritime Transport Research
Subjects:
G11
G12
G17
R41
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666822X20300010