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Trade and Search: Social Capital, Sogo Shosha, and Spillovers / James E. Rauch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rauch, James E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5618.
- NBER working paper series no. w5618
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Trade and Search
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996.
- Summary:
- A network/search view of international trade in differentiated products is proposed. It is shown that this view can explain the importance of ethnic and extended family ties in trade, the success of diversified trading intermediaries such as Japan's sogo shosha, and the ubiquity of government export promotion policies such as subsidized trade missions.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 1996.
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