This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …

trade exposure and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for German trade exposure. We find that …We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern …

Imports ; Intra-Firm Trade ; Arm’s-Length Trade … recent crisis. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the … start to import services from abroad if they are under cost pressure. By contrast, firms intensify existing service imports …

This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from … do not observe declining per capita income, health outcomes or political polarization in counties aected by foreign … competition. Our results suggest that the negative and persistent eects of trade shocks we see today are not a universal feature …

-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import …We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …