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DESCRIPTION:Asha Sundaram\,&nbsp\;Senior\nLecturer (Assistant Professor) at
  The School of Economics\, University of Cape\nTown in South AfricaBuyer-S
 eller\nRelationships in International Trade:&nbsp\; Do\nYour Neighbors Mat
 ter?The\nauthors\ninvestigate if the presence of exporters\, in the neighb
 orhood of a firm\, that\npreviously transacted with a particular foreign b
 uyer facilitates a match\nbetween the firm and this buyer. Using confident
 ial U.S. customs data on trade\ntransactions between U.S. importers and Ba
 ngladeshi exporters between 2002 and\n2009\, and information on the geogra
 phic location of Bangladeshi exporters\, the\nauthors show that the presen
 ce of neighboring exporters that previously\ntransacted with a U.S. import
 er increases the likelihood of matching with the\nsame U.S. importer for t
 he first time. This suggests a role for business\nnetworks among trading f
 irms\, and for potential knowledge and information gains\nrealized through
  them. Their research design allows the authors to isolate\nexport spillov
 ers that are partner-specific\, from overall export spillovers\npreviously
  documented in the literature. Thus\, they further extend our\nunderstandi
 ng of network effects and spillovers at the micro level where\ninternation
 al trade occurs.Asha Sundaram is a\nSenior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) 
 at The School of Economics\, University of\nCape Town in South Africa. &nb
 sp\;She is currently a visiting scholar at the\nUniversity of Michigan\, A
 nn Arbor. &nbsp\;She has a PhD in Economics from\nSyracuse University.&nbs
 p\; Her research interests are in the fields of\nInternational Trade and D
 evelopment Economics. &nbsp\;Topics she works on\ninclude trade liberaliza
 tion effects and their interaction with domestic\ninstitutions\, trade and
  firm behavior\, and micro enterprises and the informal\nsector.Sponsored 
 by the Trade Development and Political Economy at the Moynihan Institute o
 f Global Affairs
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SUMMARY:TDPE presents Asha Sundaram
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p><b>Asha Sundaram\,</b><i>&nbs
 p\;Senior\nLecturer (Assistant Professor) at The School of Economics\, Uni
 versity of Cape\nTown in South Africa</i></p><p><b>Buyer-Seller\nRelations
 hips in International Trade:&nbsp\; Do\nYour Neighbors Matter?</b></p><p>T
 he\nauthors\ninvestigate if the presence of exporters\, in the neighborhoo
 d of a firm\, that\npreviously transacted with a particular foreign buyer 
 facilitates a match\nbetween the firm and this buyer. Using confidential U
 .S. customs data on trade\ntransactions between U.S. importers and Banglad
 eshi exporters between 2002 and\n2009\, and information on the geographic 
 location of Bangladeshi exporters\, the\nauthors show that the presence of
  neighboring exporters that previously\ntransacted with a U.S. importer in
 creases the likelihood of matching with the\nsame U.S. importer for the fi
 rst time. This suggests a role for business\nnetworks among trading firms\
 , and for potential knowledge and information gains\nrealized through them
 . Their research design allows the authors to isolate\nexport spillovers t
 hat are partner-specific\, from overall export spillovers\npreviously docu
 mented in the literature. Thus\, they further extend our\nunderstanding of
  network effects and spillovers at the micro level where\ninternational tr
 ade occurs.</p><p>Asha Sundaram is a\nSenior Lecturer (Assistant Professor
 ) at The School of Economics\, University of\nCape Town in South Africa. &
 nbsp\;She is currently a visiting scholar at the\nUniversity of Michigan\,
  Ann Arbor. &nbsp\;She has a PhD in Economics from\nSyracuse University.&n
 bsp\; Her research interests are in the fields of\nInternational Trade and
  Development Economics. &nbsp\;Topics she works on\ninclude trade liberali
 zation effects and their interaction with domestic\ninstitutions\, trade a
 nd firm behavior\, and micro enterprises and the informal\nsector.</p><p><
 br></p><p><b><i>Sponsored by the Trade Development and Political Economy a
 t the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs</i></b></p><p></p><p></p>
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