volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing … environment and product- specific factors play important roles in explaining the existence of export intermediaries. These … export intermediaries to overcome country and product fixed costs means that they can more easily respond along the extensive …

countries. The model highlights how imports from a specific country affects a firm's decision to export to that country (the … extensive margin), as well as its export value (the intensive margin). The model shows that the effect of both distance and … market size on the export margins is magnified when imports in intermediates are accounted for. Indeed, to the extent that …