Title: Intermediaries in International Trade

Abstract: This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing exporters. In particular, high market-specific fixed costs of exporting, the (lack of) quality of the general contracting environment and product-specific factors play important roles in explaining the existence of export intermediaries...

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Publication ID: 36

Category Description: General Issues of International Trade Statistics

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: NBER

Year: 2011

Month: December

Sub Title: Direct vs. Indirect Mode

Author 1: Andrew B. Bernard

Author 2: Marco Grazzi

Author 3:Chiara Tomasi

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17711.pdf?new_window=1

Tags: direct export , export intermediaries , indirect exports , trade flows ,

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