Transport modal choice by multinational firms: firm-level evidence from Southeast Asia created by Kazunobu Hayakawa, Kiyoyasu Tanaka, and Yasushi Ueki

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Hayakawa, Kazunobu [author]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: International economic journal ; Volume 27, number 4Abingdon: Taylor and Francis, 2013Content type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

10168737

Subject(s):

International business enterprises -- Industrial management -- Transportation, Costs, Transport mode, Multinomial logit -- Southeast Asia

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HB1A1 INT

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Abstract: We examine transport-mode decisions by multinational firms to shed light on the role of freight logistics in multinational activity. Using a firm-level survey in Southeast Asia, we show that foreign ownership has a significantly positive and quantitatively large impact on the likelihood that air/sea transportation is chosen relative to truck shipping. This result is robust to the shipping distance, cross-border freight, and transport infrastructure. Both foreign-owned exporters and importers also tend to use air/sea transportation. Thus, our analysis presents a new distinction between multinational and domestic firms in their decision over transport modes.

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We examine transport-mode decisions by multinational firms to shed light on the role of freight logistics in multinational activity. Using a firm-level survey in Southeast Asia, we show that foreign ownership has a significantly positive and quantitatively large impact on the likelihood that air/sea transportation is chosen relative to truck shipping. This result is robust to the shipping distance, cross-border freight, and transport infrastructure. Both foreign-owned exporters and importers also tend to use air/sea transportation. Thus, our analysis presents a new distinction between multinational and domestic firms in their decision over transport modes.

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