A theory on the role of wholesalers in international trade based on economies of scope

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Trade Intermediation and the Organization of Exporters (2011, unknown): “These findings relate well to Akerman (2010), who studies Swedish firm level data and finds that 15% of total Swedish export volume is due to wholesalers.”
The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade (2011, unknown): “The three papers most closely related to ours are recent work by Blum, Claro, and Horstmann (2009), Felbermayr and Jung (2009) and Akerman (2010).”
Carry-Along Trade (2012, methodology): “31 In equilibrium, each firm makes three decisions (1) entry: whether to enter the market or not, (2) product scope: how many products, and how much of each and at what price, to sell to the market, and (3) make-or-source: which products to make in-house and which to source from upstream suppliers v”
The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2012, background): “16Other models of intermediation with similar patterns of selection of rms into intermediation and direct exporting include Akerman (2010) and Felbermayr & Jung (2008).”