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The impact of port governance and infrastructures on maritime containerized trade on the West Coast of Latin America

European Journal of Government and Economics

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Title The impact of port governance and infrastructures on maritime containerized trade on the West Coast of Latin America
 
Creator Lopez-Bermudez, Beatriz
Freire-Seoane, María Jesús
de la Peña Zarzuelo, Ignacio
 
Subject Port governance; maritime trade; Latin America; panel data
C33; N76; R42
 
Description Latin American countries have historically had a strong dependence on trade, and are mostly characterized by being exporters of raw materials and importers of manufactured products. This fact has brought about a less negative impact of the world crisis on economic growth, mainly because of the high prices of raw materials.This paper focuses on this geographical area (the West Coast of Latin America) between 2008 and 2015, and adds to the literature by assessing institutional, port-related and economic factors that influence maritime transport. The analysis makes use of panel data models with fixed and random effects where the Hausman test has been applied in order to define a solid specification of all the ports, as well as to discount the particular peculiarities of each country.It is shown that the analysis of maritime transport requires the analysis of a number of variables apart from trade (volume of TEUs), infrastructures, superstructures (number of calls, gantry cranes), and that other variables, such as port governance, which are sometimes difficult to quantify, need also to be taken into account.
 
Publisher Europa Grande
 
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Date 2018-06-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ejge.org/index.php/ejge/article/view/ejge.2018.7.1.181
 
Source European Journal of Government and Economics; Vol 7, No 1 (2018); 85-101
2254-7088
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ejge.org/index.php/ejge/article/view/ejge.2018.7.1.181/82
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Beatriz Lopez Bermudez, María Jesús Freire Seoane, Ignacio de la Peña Zarzuelo
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