Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export data at the firm-product level, we find that the...

This paper examine multi-product exporters in Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin adjustments of trade. Relatively few exporting firms...

Recent export experience of some large, emerging economies has raised important questions about the trade determinants of the modern services-driven sectors and the goods-production-driven sectors. In our empirical analysis of the determinants of Indian exports of software services and of the...

Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export data at the firm-product level, we find that the...