TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rauch,James E.
TI  - Trade and Search: Social Capital, Sogo Shosha, and Spillovers
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5618
PY  - 1996
Y2  - June 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5618
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5618.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James E. Rauch
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Tel: 858/534-2405
Fax: 858/534-7040
E-Mail: jrauch@weber.ucsd.edu
AB  - A network/search view of international trade in differentiated products is proposed.  It is shown that this view can explain the importance of ethnic and extended family ties in trade, the success of diversified trading intermediaries such as Japan's sogo shosha, and the ubiquity of government export promotion policies such as subsidized trade missions.
ER  -