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SUMMARY:Development and political economy seminar - Julia Cajal Grossi
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DESCRIPTION:Multinationals’ reputation in high-income countries is increa
 singly tied to the behavior of their foreign suppliers. How do buyers find 
 suppliers in low-income countries? Using customs records from Bangladesh’
 s garment sector\, this paper shows that when starting to source a product\
 , buyers experiment with potential suppliers through small-scale\, short-li
 ved interactions before forming lasting relationships. While large buyers e
 xperiment more than smaller buyers on average\, they experiment less when q
 uality dispersion among potential suppliers is high—a counterintuitive fi
 nding from the perspective of search theory. I rationalize these empirical 
 facts with a model of search with reputational risk and highlight an import
 ant trade-off for international buyers: when quality dispersion is high\, t
 hey experiment more in hopes of finding a high-quality recurrent trade part
 ner but may unintentionally experiment with a low-quality supplier who dama
 ges their reputation. The model characterizes the optimal amount of experim
 entation and the threshold supplier quality at which buyers should settle. 
 It yields two difference-in-differences relationships that I test in the da
 ta\, exploiting exogenous variation in buyers’ reputation concerns after 
 the largest industrial accident in the history of the Bangladeshi garment s
 ector. This shock to reputation concerns led to less experimentation and wo
 rse matches among large (plausibly more reputation-sensitive) buyers in pro
 duct categories with high supplier quality dispersion.\\n\\nContact: Timoth
 ée Demont : timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.frEva Raiber : eva.raiber[at]uni
 v-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: https://amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements
 /julia-cajal-grossi
LOCATION:MEGA - Salle Carine Nourry\, 424\, Chemin du Viaduc\, 13080 Aix-en
 -Provence
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CONTACT:Timothée Demont :&nbsp\;timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.frEva Raiber :
 &nbsp\;eva.raiber[at]univ-amu.fr
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