. Services traders are bigger, more productive and are more likely to be foreign owned or part of a multinational enterprise … show that most firms only export or import a single service type and trade with a small number of countries. Trade volume … are a number of noteworthy exceptions. Interestingly, trade is also concentrated within .rms. The top export and import …

Using detailed product-level export data for China and a variant of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model that includes … investments in component search, we examine the sectoral determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) versus foreign … outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …

Studies on the productivity spillovers of FDI have concentrated on the national-sectoral level. As a result, little is … known about the impact of FDI on absolute and relative regional economic performance. In this paper we examine this issue by … regions. In this way, despite the tendency of FDI to concentrate in a few only areas within the country –those of the highest …