This research focuses on the accessibility of inland cities to maritime trade. A quantitative
analysis of 64 inland capital cities situated in coastal countries is proposed based on …

What determines the relative gains from improving different parts of a transportation
network? Ports and roads are key components of a country's infrastructure to access …

The historical integration of economic markets between and within nations has profoundly
altered human society. Nonetheless, existing literature on this topic has seldom gone …

As China's economy advances toward high‐quality development, how to promote the
rational spatial distribution of skilled labor to achieve sustainable regional economic growth …

With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but
the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that …

Given the intricate and dynamic international political and economic landscape, effectively
preventing and resolving risks and challenges while bolstering the resilience of economic …

This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and
international trade flows in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using customs data and …

While countries' social and economic well-being depends on various factors, recent
research emphasises the importance of transport and ICT infrastructure. To reduce the …

With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but
the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that …

We evaluate how access to international transport infrastructure promotes trade and
economic development. Exploiting the gradual unfolding of transcontinental rail freight …