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iceberg transport costs: a standalone construct

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Transport economics

modelling transport costs as a fraction of goods that melts away in transit, so that more than one unit must be shipped for one to arrive.

In transport economics, iceberg transport costs refers to modelling transport costs as a fraction of goods that melts away in transit, so that more than one unit must be shipped for one to arrive. This meaning comes from Samuelson (1954) in The Economic Journal.[1]

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  1. Samuelson, P. A. (1954). The Transfer Problem and Transport Costs, II: Analysis of Effects of Trade Impediments. The Economic Journal, 64(254), 264. https://doi.org/10.2307/2226834

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