This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that financial constraints play in shaping firms' export … quantity associated with financial constraints. -- Financial constraints ; margins of export ; export prices …

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

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 …

export premia. Third, we look at how the wage and the employment structures of trading firms change with the country of …

between trade status and firm characteristics. First, exploiting firm-level information on the destination of export and the …

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

- 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 …

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 …

mechanism, but also to efficiency improvements following the export activity. We find heterogeneous post entry effects with … propensity score matching and Differences in Differences techniques. -- Self selection ; Post-entry effects ; Export ; Matching …

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