mechanism, but also to efficiency improvements following the export activity. We find heterogeneous post entry effects with …

sales, and we show that import is even more concentrated than export both within sectors and along the sector and country …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or …

- namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that only import. We show that two-way traders have a … export or import. The paper also looks at how the wages and the skill structure of the trading firms change with the country …

Combining detailed data on export transactions and an informative firm level measure of financing constraints, this … destinations, (iii) higher loss of export value associated to dropping product or destination markets; (iv) higher probability to … discard products with relatively high share in firm total export values, and (v) higher likelihood to drop country markets …

control for unobserved firm fixed effects both in the selection and in the export equation, thus identifying the effect on …

markets but rather they adapt their choices to better match with country characteristics. By using metrics based on export …-country variability observed in firms' export patterns. Our results resist when we control for a firm's choice of not exporting an …

This paper investigates the relation between firms' productivity and exporting behavior in presence of export … productivity-sorting prediction according to which domestic firms are less efficient than those resorting to an export intermediary …, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly. Our novel finding is that firms' productivity has …

country-specific fixed cost in the choice of direct versus indirect modes of export. Recent theoretical work suggests that …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that financial constraints play in shaping firms' export …