Competitiveness and macroeconomic impacts of reduced wait times at U.S. land freight border crossings

Avetisyan, Misak; Heatwole, Nathaniel; Rose, Adam; Roberts, Bryan W.

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2015.04.027

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“…In this paper, we investigate our research question at the aggregate for Mexico, looking instead at two different types of northbound border crossings: personal vehicles and pedestrians. 2 Although there is evidence 1 Previous works on Canadian-U.S. border crossings include: Di Matteo and Di Matteo (1996); Anderson et al, (2014); Chandra et al (2014); Avetisyan et al (2015); Maoh et al, (2016Maoh et al, ( , 2018; Chen et al (2017);and Baggs et al (2018). 2 An earlier version of this paper included personal vehicles, pedestrians, and truck crossings.…”

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Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides

Mollick

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Saucedo

2021

Crime Law Soc Change

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“… 1 Previous works on Canadian-U.S. border crossings include: Di Matteo and Di Matteo ( 1996 ); Anderson et al, ( 2014 ); Chandra et al ( 2014 ); Avetisyan et al ( 2015 ); Maoh et al, ( 2016 , 2018 ); Chen et al ( 2017 ); and Baggs et al ( 2018 ). …”

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Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides

Mollick

Cabral

Saucedo

2021

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…The following studies use the GTAP CGE model to analyze the impacts of BC delays in North America. Avetisyan et al investigated the impacts of staffing at custom BCs using the GTAP model focusing on the U.S., Canada, and Mexico ( 8 ). The CGE model is exogenously shocked to reflect changes in transport costs.…”

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Optimizing Canada–U.S. Border Crossing Investments for Export Competitiveness

Shahraki

Bachmann

2019

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Border crossings are vital to a nation’s safety and security as well as its economic competitiveness. On one hand, borders are intended to ensure the safety of a nation against external threats; on the other, they are needed to ensure the efficient crossing of legitimate people and goods. For Canada and the United States (U.S.), the latter is particularly important considering that the trade between the two countries amounts to $1.8B USD daily. Small changes in border crossing operations could have large economic impacts on both countries. In this study, a new tool is proposed, which combines a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with several empirical transportation datasets to prioritize Canada–U.S. border crossing investments along the entire international boundary, from both countries’ perspectives. Simulation results suggest that reducing wait times at border crossings can have sizable impacts on trade value, gross domestic product (GDP), and welfare. GDP and welfare changes are always positive with maximum values of $11.50 and $3.15M USD per year, respectively. Border crossing improvements affect industries differently, ranging from an increase of $2.09M USD to a decrease of $–0.22M USD in trade value. Analysis results indicate that the Lansdowne, Ambassador, Sarnia, Fort Erie, and Coutts border crossings are the highest priority for Canada to U.S. trade facilitation. Lastly, results suggest that investing in borders that benefit Canada to U.S. trade typically benefits the U.S.’s GDP as well.

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“…Again using Canadian data on trucking prices Brown (2015) provides evidence that border compliance costs are reflected in prices. Avetisyan et. al (2015) examine the cost reducing effects of adding customs personnel at twelve major land crossing of the U.S. Due to the reduction in wait times and associated savings in costs of transportation they predict an increase in GDP and jobs.…”

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Transportation and Trade Interactions: A Trade Facilitation Perspective

Carballo,

Schaur,

Volpe Martincus

2017

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Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the provision of transportation services. In addition, we make use of a particular policy change, an upgrade to a new transit trade regime, to illustrate the many direct and indirect linkages between trade facilitation and transportation. These multiple connections imply that a well-functioning transportation sector is important to realize the full potential of trade facilitation policies. Our conceptual and empirical analyses show that, despite an increase in demand for transportation services, the effect of trade facilitation on freight rates and the underlying transportation sector is far from obvious. This calls for future research to examine equilibrium adjustment channels to trade facilitation policies in the transportation sector.

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Competitiveness and macroeconomic impacts of reduced wait times at U.S. land freight border crossings

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides

Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides

Optimizing Canada–U.S. Border Crossing Investments for Export Competitiveness

Transportation and Trade Interactions: A Trade Facilitation Perspective

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