uncover the determinants of the fickle and stable parts of firm export product mix, we use a cross section of firm …

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 …

result, validated on Italian firm-level trade data, is consistent with productivity sorting in the export mode and with the … intermediary export flows to a given destination react to exchange rate movements along the extensive margin of adjustment …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …

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 …