Are We Shipping Farther?The Global Distance Pattern of Export and Import Freight Trip

• Main Authors: Chai-YiHsiao, 蕭家宜
• Other Authors: Pei-Chun Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k9rgua

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 交通管理科學系 === 107 === This paper is to construct trade distance pattern of freight trip through years and answer the question “Are we shipping farther?” by evaluating the trade distance per thousand US dollars globally. We construct spatial econometrics models for export and import distance per thousand US dollars. We assume the degree of vulnerability to trades affects the export and import distance per thousand US dollars of a country. The models are constructed based on a panel data form with 201 countries from 2001 to 2017. The result suggests that trade distance per thousand US dollars of each country has generally increased, and the changes in them depend on the shiftings in trades partners and values of products. In respect of export, a country excludes the customers that are too far from it when it becomes less dependent on exports, which make export distance per thousand US dollars become lesser. In respect of import, most of the major importer around the world can make profits from their own industries, hence they are less vulnerable to imports and have greater purchasing power, which also means having greater import distance per thousand US dollars. To the relationship between a country and its neighbor countries, most of the exporters prone to sell expensive products to all of the countries around the world when their neighbors become more dependent on trades; a country tend to start trading with the countries far from it when its neighbor countries become less vulnerable on trades.