consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of … export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …

, built from highly disaggregated US import data. Consistent with the model, financial development increases sales dispersion …

documented that exporting is a rare activity, that exporting firms are larger and more productive than other firms, and that … heterogeneous and highly concentrated. Second, both the extensive margin (number of exporting firms) and the intensive margin … multinational firms, the import behavior of firms, and the extent to which heterogeneity is endogenous to firms. choices, but some …

We study the effects of import competition on industry locations patterns in a small open economy with two regions … is linked with firm-level innovation through an import competition effect that is increasing in the market share of … imported goods and the productivity differential of domestic firms with the rest of the world. We show that increased import …