| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9584 |
| DP9584 The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports | |
| Gianmarco Ottaviano; Christian Volpe Martincus; Jeronimo Carballo | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-08-11 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use highly disaggregated firm-level export data from Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Uruguay over the period 2005-2008 to provide a precise characterization of firms' export margins, across products, destination countries, and crucially customers. We show that a firm's number of buyers and the distribution of sales across them systematically vary with the characteristics of its destination markets. While most firms serve only very few buyers abroad, the number of buyers and the skewness of sales across them increases with the size and the accessibility of destinations. We develop a simple model of selection with heterogeneous buyers and sellers consistent with these findings in which tougher competition induces a better alignment between consumers' ideal variants and firms' core competencies. This generates an additional channel through which tougher competition leads to higher productivity and higher welfare and hints at an additional source of gains from trade as long as freer trade fosters competition. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Buyer margins Competition Market segmentation Markups |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9584 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538420 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gianmarco Ottaviano,Christian Volpe Martincus,Jeronimo Carballo. DP9584 The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports. 2013. |
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