Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade

Global value chains (GVCs) typically involve large firms exerting bargaining power over the terms of trade. We develop a novel theory of international prices accounting for these features of GVCs and illustrate their e ↵ ect on the pass-through of trade shocks into import prices. We build a new dataset merging transaction-level U

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