Infrastructure and the international export performance of Turkish regions

Mehmet Celbis, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot

No 2014-021, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

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: Economic development; economic performance; regional development; Turkey; infrastructure; trade; export; transportation costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 O24 R10 R40 R42 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-02-31
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-cse, nep-cwa, nep-geo, nep-int, nep-tre and nep-ure
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