Anonymous Markets and Coethnic Ties in International Trade

[9709237]卡塞拉研究表明，不仅是海外华人，生活在原籍国以外的许多其他民族也建立了正式或非正式的“社会”，来自东道国和母国的同民族商人都可以进入这些“社会”。这些协会的主要目的是提供有关商业机会和商业合同的信息。同种族社会的运作和经济重要性在收容新移民的国家和这些移民的原籍国之间的特殊贸易案例中得到了特别充分的记录。本研究项目的目的是建立一个匿名市场和个人接触网络相互作用的一般均衡贸易模型，并检验该模型的实证意义。该项目增加了对整合网络和市场经济模式的日益增长的研究。尽管经济学家和其他社会科学家认为，这两种形式的组织在分配经济资源方面发挥着重要作用，但很少有分析明确地对待它们是如何相互作用的。?？

9709237 Casella Studies show that not only Overseas Chinese but also many other ethnic groups living outside their countries of origin create formal or informal "societies" to which coethnic business people from both the host countries and the mother country have access. The main purpose of these societies is to provide information about business opportunities and business contracts. The operation and economic importance of coethnic societies has been especially well documented for the special case of trade between countries hosting recent immigrants and these immigrants' countries of origin. The purpose of this research project is to build a general equilibrium model of trade where anonymous markets and networks of personal contacts interact, and to test the empirical implications that can be drawn from the model. The project adds to the growing research on integrating network and market models of the economy. Although economists and other social scientists believe that both forms of organizations play an important role in allocating economic resources, very few analyses treat explicitly how they interact. ??