Title :
Study on border effects for shipping trade based on gravity model
Author_Institution :
School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China
Abstract :
This paper puts forward a border effect model derived from the widespread Gravity Model for shipping industry to study the significance of trade barriers caused by the regional border in ports. The result shows that economic size, cargo handling capacity and berth number of a port greatly influence the bilateral shipping trade while pier length does not show an obvious effect on shipping trade. Border effects between China and US for shipping trade do exist but is not quite significant based on the data of 2004–2009.
Keywords :
Economics; Equations; Freight handling; Gravity; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Transportation; Gravity Model; border effects; shipping trade;
Conference_Titel :
E -Business and E -Government (ICEE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8691-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICEBEG.2011.5881602
