adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

between firm size, scope and productivity. More efficient firms become exporters, but not all exporters are large and not all … large firms export. Following a trade liberalization, non-exporters experience a fall in their market-to-book ratio and …

quantity and price information to disentangle markups from quantity-based productivity, and then compute marginal costs by …

identify the impact of increased import competition on firm performance and its contribution to the significant productivity … that imports took away market share from domestic firms. Furthermore, much of the effects on sectoral productivity come … firms in particular, which can be rationalized by an increase in the minimum productivity threshold needed to survive in …

We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size …, scope, and productivity. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in how well they cope with expanding their product range. The …-discount puzzle" found in the data. Globalization induces a merger wave that leads to an improvement in average productivity. This …