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Les extendemos la invitación al seminario que organiza el Departamento de Economía, en el que se presentará el trabajo titulado "International Trade Finance and Learning Dynamics".

Expone: David Kohn, Profesor Asistente, Instituto de Economía, Universidad Católica.

Abstract: We study how the use of trade finance and the development of long-term relationships between exporters and importers facilitate international trade by allowing exporters to learn about demand uncertainty and counter-party risk. Using detailed micro-level Chilean data, we document that new exporters are more likely to use cash-in-advance (CIA) arrangements and gradually switch to providing trade credit as they continue to export. The initial use of CIA also depends on firms’ former exporting experience and the perceived riskiness of the destination. We set up an international trade model in which firms make exporting and trade financing decisions subject to demand and counter-party risks and use it to quantify the relative importance of demand and counter-party risks and how trade finance choices affect export dynamics. Our model implies that exporters tend to use initially CIA and export low quantities to limit their risk exposure and, as they learn about their counterparty and foreign demand, they switch to providing trade credit and expand their sales.

El formato será presencial y el seminario se desarrollará en la Sala P-305.

Saludos cordiales,

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