Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324785 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1679
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Trade flows are the result of the interaction between buyers and sellers. Understanding how these firm-to-firm relationships form, survive, and evolve over time helps identify how countries can improve their export outcomes. Using a very granular dataset of United States import transactions from all countries around the world, we present a battery of static and dynamic metrics of firm-to-firm relationships. We show how Latin American exporters compare with exporters from other regions across all the metrics. We show that trade costs negatively affect the formation and duration of firm-to-firm networks. Regional differences in these costs partially explain Latin Americas performance. The study discusses a series of measures to reduce trade-related cots in the region that, in light of the results, are likely to improve the trade networks of Latin American countries.
Subjects: 
Trade networks
Supply chains
Exports
JEL: 
F12
F14
L22
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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