The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a simplistic re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of the empirical regularities. This re-interpretation relies...

In recent decades, a large and increasing number of leading firms in a diverse set of industries have faced allegations of ‘unethical' practices along their international value chains. In many cases this has triggered consumer boycotts and NGO campaigns, introducing a new link between upstream...

The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of these empirical regularities. Our re-interpretation relies on...