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Private Labels and International Trade: Trading Variety for Volume
| Τίτλος: | Private Labels and International Trade: Trading Variety for Volume |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Blanchard, Emily J., Chesnokova, Tatyana, Willmann, Gerald |
| Στοιχεία εκδότη: | Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics |
| Έτος έκδοσης: | 2013 |
| Συλλογή: | PUB - Publications at Bielefeld University |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | Intermediaries, Heterogeneous Firms, Private Labels, International Retailers, Export Mode, ddc:330 |
| Περιγραφή: | Blanchard EJ, Chesnokova T, Willmann G. Private Labels and International Trade: Trading Variety for Volume . Working Papers in Economics and Management. Vol 02-2013. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics; 2013. ; This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics ('brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms - either a wholesaling arrangement that (also) maintains the exporter's unique brand but imposes a higher marginal cost (via double marginalization), or a 'private label' contract under which the firm's product is pooled with other firms' output and re-sold under a new private label brand created by the intermediary. This paper focuses on the latter, and shows that the availability of the private label option results in greater total export volumes and lower average prices for consumers, but fewer independent varieties available in equilibrium. Welfare implications are mixed: consumers trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of the gains from trade. |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: | report |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| ISSN: | 2196-2723 |
| Relation: | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2196-2723 |
| Διαθεσιμότητα: | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-25626644 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2562664 https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2562664/2915368 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: | edsbas.47739AA3 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | BASE |
| ISSN: | 21962723 |
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