destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

by considering firms’ engagement in international transactions, by focusing on either exports or imports. We show that … variations in market characteristics have a larger impact on imports than exports. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg …

This paper introduces imports in intermediate inputs into a standard heterogeneous firms model of trade with asymmetric … countries. The model highlights how imports from a specific country affects a firm's decision to export to that country (the … market size on the export margins is magnified when imports in intermediates are accounted for. Indeed, to the extent that …

imports originate from? Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, this essay adds new evidence on the relationship … origin of imports, we observe the heterogeneity among firms trading with different type of markets. We show that different … destinations of exports and different origins of imports map into distinctive firm characteristics. Second, we test the hypothesis …

diversification of imports. …