-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be … Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …

export and productivity dynamics after a trade liberalization. In particular, the calibrated model predicts that financing … across productivity, volatility and financial wealth. We show that this endogenous distribution is crucial to understand … frictions have an ambiguous effect on the number of firms starting to export. They reduce the ability of firms to finance the fixed …

interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France … survives after controlling for productivity, with some evidence of causality running from the latter to the former. Our … analysis suggests that export promotion per se is unlikely to lead to sustainable internationalization because …

controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … an illustrative theoretical model that shows how the combination between high risk aversion and low initial productivity …

international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the … costs over time and industries. As the models predict, productivity growth is faster in industries with falling trade costs …

interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France … survives after controlling for productivity, with some evidence of causality running from the latter to the former. Our … analysis suggests that export promotion per se is unlikely to lead to sustainable internationalization because …

manufacturing firms in Germany, France, U.K., and U.S. We find a positive correlation between firm productivity and FFWP. This …