Traditional heterogeneous firms and trade models predict no causal relationship between firms' exports and domestic …-product sales in different markets for the first time in the literature to identify the channels that link exports and domestic … sales. First, I use an instrumental variables strategy and establish that an exogenous doubling of exports increases a firm …

level in Belgium and the Netherlands. Wagemarkup pricing stemming from workers' monopoly power is more prevalent than … intensity of wage markups measured by workers' bargaining power in Belgium. …

between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty …

labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

Empirical evidence suggests that sectoral export growth decreases exporters' survival probability, whereas this is not … true for non-exporters. Models with firm heterogeneity in total factor productivity (TFP) predict the opposite. To solve … this puzzle, we develop a two{factor framework where firms differ in factor intensities. Thus, export growth increases …

great recession. The sharp drop in exports and tightness in credit markets are seen to provide a partial explanation for …