Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade

13 Pages Posted: 28 Jun 2010 Last revised: 27 Mar 2012

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J. Bradford Jensen

Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business; Peterson Institute for International Economics

Stephen J. Redding

Princeton University

Peter K. Schott

Yale University - School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Yale University - Cowles Foundation

Andrew B. Bernard

Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: June 28, 2010

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Wholesaler, Retailer, Intermediary, International Trade

JEL Classification: F10, F14

Suggested Citation

Jensen, J. Bradford and Redding, Stephen J. and Schott, Peter K. and Bernard, Andrew B., Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade (June 28, 2010). Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 10-10, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2011-89, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1631855 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1631855

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