Cajal-Grossi, Julia, Macchiavello, Rocco and Noguera, Guillermo (2019) International buyers' sourcing and suppliers markups in Bangladeshi garments. CEP Discussion Papers (1598). Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, London, UK.
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Abstract
Large international buyers play a key role in global value chains. We exploit detailed transaction-level data on the usage of material inputs to study how Bangladeshi garment suppliers' markups vary across international buyers. We find substantial dispersion in markups across export orders of a given seller for the same product. Buyer effects explain a significant share of this variation, while destination effects do not. Buyers adopting relational sourcing strategies pay higher markups than non-relational buyers. This pattern holds within seller-product-year combinations, is robust to controlling for the buyer's size, traded volumes, and quality, and, together with larger volumes, implies higher profits for suppliers dealing with relational buyers.
Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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Official URL: | http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/series.asp?... |
Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors |
Divisions: | Management |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
JEL classification: | L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L14 - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights |
Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2019 11:03 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 23:48 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/102612 |
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