O impacto da infraestrutura logística sobre o comércio internacional no ano de 2015

Abstract

Year after year, the international trade have been intensifying due to the facilities and innovations that allow his grow. Among these innovations, the transport of goods is a prime factor, since it represents a significant share of the final costs of a good. Therefore, transport infrastructure impacts costs and consequently, the country competitiveness for exporting its products. The work sought to show the Brazilian situation in terms of infrastructure, comparing it with other countries, and estimates a gravity model in order to capture the impact that the infrastructure causes on the countries’ exports. The data used was from the year of 2015 and a sample of 138 countries. The results showed that the country's general infrastructure (which includes access to electricity, treated water, mobile telephone network and logistics infrastructure), affects exports negatively. This may be related to the fact that the country's general infrastructure has several aspects that facilitate the country's internal trade, diverting its exports. As for the variables of logistics infrastructure (which encompasses road, rail, airport and port infrastructure), the model showed signs that that these variables affect exports positively, evincing the importance of brazilian government in improves his investment in logistics infrastructure chain in order to expand its insertion in the international market.