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Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade

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  • Andrew B. Bernard
  • J. Bradford Jensen
  • Stephen J. Redding
  • Peter K. Schott

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International trade models typically assume that producers in one country trade directly with final consumers in another. In reality, of course, trade can involve long chains of potentially independent actors who move goods through wholesale and retail distribution networks. These networks likely affect the magnitude and nature of trade frictions and hence both the pattern of trade and its welfare gains. To promote further understanding of the means by which goods move across borders, this paper examines the extent to which US exports and imports flow through wholesalers and retailers versus producing and consuming firms.

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Article provided by American Economic Association in its journal American Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 100 (2010)
Issue (Month): 2 (May)
Pages: 408-13

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Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:100:y:2010:i:2:p:408-13

Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.2.408
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  1. Luis Araujo & Giordano Mion & Emanuel Ornelas, 2012. "Institutions and export dynamics," Working Paper Research 220, National Bank of Belgium.
  2. Bernard, Andrew B. & Grazzi, Marco & Tomasi, Chiara, 2012. "Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export," CEPR Discussion Papers 8766, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Akerman, Anders, 2010. "A Theory on the Role of Wholesalers in International Trade based on Economies of Scope," Research Papers in Economics 2010:1, Stockholm University, Department of Economics.
  4. Bernard, Andrew B & Van Beveren, Ilke & Vandenbussche, Hylke, 2010. "Multi-product exporters, carry-along trade and the margins of trade," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/387848, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
  5. Horst Raff & Nicolas Schmitt, 2012. "Imports and the structure of retail markets," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 45(4), pages 1431-1455, November.
  6. Freund, Caroline & Pierola, Martha Denisse, 2012. "Export superstars," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6222, The World Bank.
  7. JaeBin Ahn & Amit K. Khandelwal & Shang-Jin Wei, 2010. "The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade," NBER Working Papers 15706, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Jennifer Abel-Koch, . "Who uses intermediaries in international trade? Evidence from firm-level survey data," Discussion Papers 11/25, University of Nottingham, GEP.

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