全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Entrepreneurship in International Trade

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w8708
来源ID	Working Paper 8708
	Entrepreneurship in International Trade
	James E. Rauch; Joel Watson
发表日期	2002-01-09
出版年	2002
语种	英语
摘要	Motivated by evidence on the importance of incomplete information and networks in international trade, we investigate the supply of 'network intermediation.' We hypothesize that the agents who become international trade intermediaries first accumulate networks of foreign contacts while working as employees in production or sales, then become entrepreneurs who sell access to and use of the networks they accumulated. We report supportive results regarding this hypothesis from a pilot survey of international trade intermediaries. We then build a simple general-equilibrium model of this type of entrepreneurship, and use it for comparative statics and welfare analysis. One welfare conclusion is that intermediaries may have inadequate incentives to maintain or expand their networks, suggesting a rationale for the policies followed by some countries to encourage large-scale trading companies that imitate the Japanese sogo shosha.
主题	International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Labor Market Structures
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w8708
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566315
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	James E. Rauch,Joel Watson. Entrepreneurship in International Trade. 2002.

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