the demand side (buyers) in international trade using a novel transaction-level dataset from Norway. Domestic exporters as … reveal a number of new stylized facts on the distributions of buyers per exporter and exporters per buyer, the matching among … heterogeneous importers as well as heterogeneous exporters where matches are subject to a relation-specific fixed cost. The model …

and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and … men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters … between the genders and show that the initially higher GWG observed in exporting firms relative to non-exporters has gone down …

on the stark assumption that exporters’ superior performance is due to intrinsic firm efficiency. We investigate the … importance of intrinsic firm efficiency relative to input quality as sources of exporters’ productivity premium, employing a …

demand growth in Italy's main export market (the EU15) have been much more important in explaining Italian export performance …

Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar-refining cartel show how communication helps firms collude, and so …

, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i … communication and substantial employee discretion. (iii) Broad task assignments and intensive horizontal communication are … complementary. Hence, lower communication costs often result in less specialization. …

communication flows serve as important channels of diffusion. The analysis is based on examining the productivity effects of R …

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most effective in achieving cooperation in a simple … collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …

either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …