Allocating Shipping-Related Tasks Between Exporters and Importers

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  • Abiy Teshome
چکیده

Internatonal trade relies on buyers and sellers sharing and successfully executng various costly and ofen unpredictable logistcal tasks. Existng work on the obstacles to smooth delivery summarizes the physical and insttutonal diferences between origin and destnaton countries as some form of “fricton” that impedes aggregate trade fows. I ofer the frst breakdown of the delivery process into its various components, present stylized facts using detailed Colombian transacton-level data, and ratonalize the empirical paterns using a model of sequental producton (delivery) in an incompletecontractng environment.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016