Germany we find evidence that imports are power-law distributed and that the distribution of imports in the industries can be … of idiosyncratic shocks to the largest firms in the dynamics of imports by firms from manufacturing industries. For … characterised as fat-tailed. Results show that idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms are important for the import dynamics in …

Germany we find evidence that imports are power-law distributed and that the distribution of imports in the industries can be … of idiosyncratic shocks to the largest firms in the dynamics of imports by firms from manufacturing industries. For … characterised as fat-tailed. Results show that idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms are important for the import dynamics in …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 …

imports is due to multiple sourcing. It is shown that the probability of multiple import sourcing and the share of imports …This paper uses information on import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 merged with information on … multiple import sourcing by importing the same good from more than one source country in a year and that a large share of total …

This paper uses a tailor-made newly available data set for enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany to … investigate for the first time the links between the extensive margins of imports (the number of imported goods and the number of … productivity, profits are not higher in firms that import more goods and from more countries. This demonstrates that productivity …

Germany we find evidence that imports are power-law distributed and that the distribution of imports in the industries can be … of idiosyncratic shocks to the largest firms in the dynamics of imports by firms from manufacturing industries. For … characterised as fat-tailed. Results show that idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms are important for the import dynamics in …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany … imports ("learning-by-importing"). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the … advantages of trading firms are eaten up by extra costs related to selling and buying on foreign markets. -- exports ; imports …