Modelling Global Trade with Optimal Transport

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06554v2
• Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 20:57:31 GMT
• Title: Modelling Global Trade with Optimal Transport
• Authors: Thomas Gaskin, Marie-Therese Wolfram, Andrew Duncan, Guven Demirel,
• Abstract summary: We use optimal transport and a deep neural network to learn a time-dependent cost function from data. We show that the global South suffered disproportionately from the war in Ukraine's impact on wheat markets. We also analyze the effects of free-trade agreements and trade disputes with China.
• Score: 1.638332186726632
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Global trade is shaped by a complex mix of factors beyond supply and demand, including tangible variables like transport costs and tariffs, as well as less quantifiable influences such as political and economic relations. Traditionally, economists model trade using gravity models, which rely on explicit covariates but often struggle to capture these subtler drivers of trade. In this work, we employ optimal transport and a deep neural network to learn a time-dependent cost function from data, without imposing a specific functional form. This approach consistently outperforms traditional gravity models in accuracy while providing natural uncertainty quantification. Applying our framework to global food and agricultural trade, we show that the global South suffered disproportionately from the war in Ukraine's impact on wheat markets. We also analyze the effects of free-trade agreements and trade disputes with China, as well as Brexit's impact on British trade with Europe, uncovering hidden patterns that trade volumes alone cannot reveal.

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