Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen (), Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

No 15660, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We combine data on individual trade transactions from U.S. customs records with comprehensive information on firms' employment from the Census Bureau's business register to examine wholesalers and retailers in U.S. exports and imports. Exporters and importers with 100 percent employment in wholesale and retail differ from pure "producer and consumer" trading firms along a number of dimensions: they are smaller in terms of employment, trade value and domestic sales, operate fewer U.S. establishments and are present in fewer U.S. states. "Mixed" firms, i.e., those with both production/consumption and wholesale retail within the boundaries of the firm, on the other hand, are substantially larger. They trade more products, trade with more countries, and are more likely to engage in related-party trade.

JEL-codes: F1 L8 L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
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Published as Wholesalers and Retailers in US Trade American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2010, Vol. 100, No. 2, May, 408-413 (with J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding,and Peter K. Schott)

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