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

This paper investigates the extent to which international trade hinges onpatents. We analyze the export and patenting … observe export and patenting activities worldwide and at the product level. We exploit how heterogeneity of patent …

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 …

-level export performance in Asia's super exporter - The People's Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that … manager/chief executive officer also matter. The findings suggest that the PRC's remarkable success in the export of …

Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm's profitability. The paper … more standard within the empirical trade literature, by regression techniques that try to identify an 'export premium'. …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture … innovations and their impact on export propensity at the firm level through a double treatment approach. …