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dc.titleTwo-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade
dc.contributor.authorAlviarez, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorFioretti, Michele
dc.contributor.authorKikkawa, Ken
dc.contributor.authorMorlacco, Monica
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageUnited States
dc.coverageNorth America
dc.date.available2023-02-21T00:02:00
dc.date.issue2023-02-21T00:02:00
dc.description.abstractWe develop a quantitative theory of prices in firm-to-firm trade with bilateral negotiations and two-sided market power. Markups reflect oligopoly and oligopsony forces, with relative bargaining power as weight. Cost pass-through elasticities into import prices can be incomplete or complete, depending on the exporters and importers bargaining power and market shares. In U.S. import data, we find that U.S. importers have substantial market power and disproportionate leverage in price negotiations. The estimated model produces accurate predictions of the impact of Trump tariffs on pair-level prices. At the aggregate level, ignoring two-sided market power could exaggerate tariff pass-through by about 60 percent.
dc.format.extent64
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004746
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Two-Sided-Market-Power_in-Firm-to-Firm-Trade.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectValue Chain
dc.subjectExport Activity
dc.subjectFirm Performance
dc.subjectIntegration and Trade
dc.subjectTariff System
dc.subjectImport
dc.subjectService Provider
dc.subjectSmall Business
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subject.jelcodeF12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies • Fragmentation
dc.subject.jelcodeF13 - Trade Policy • International Trade Organizations
dc.subject.jelcodeF14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
dc.subject.jelcodeF62 - Macroeconomic Impacts
dc.subject.keywordsMarket power;global value chains;Pass-through;International trade
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01370
idb.operationRG-E1754
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