| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12660 |
| DP12660 Ice(berg) transport costs | |
| Maarten Bosker | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-01-29 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Iceberg transport costs are one of the main ingredients of modern trade and economic geography models: transport costs are modelled by assuming that a fraction of the goods shipped ``melts in transit''. In this paper, we investigate whether the iceberg assumption applies to the costs of transporting the only good that literally melts in transit: ice. Using detailed information on Boston's nineteenth-century global ice trade, we show that ice(berg) transport costs in practice were a combination of a true ad-valorem iceberg cost: melt in transit, and freight, (off)loading and insurance costs. The physics of the melt process and the practice of insulating the ice in transit imply an immediate violation of the iceberg assumption: shipping ice is subject to economies scale. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Iceberg transport costs Boston Ice trade |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12660 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541472 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Maarten Bosker. DP12660 Ice(berg) transport costs. 2018. |
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