Environmental and quality management practices are extremely relevant for a firm’s development and international recognition. However, dealing with the standards required and obtaining an international standards certification involves costs for employee training, procedure documents, and...

Firm performance is known to benefit from participation in import markets. For this reason, understanding whether credit constraints hamper firms' ability to purchase foreign inputs is a relevant issue. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial constraints and imports of...

Growing evidence suggests that a large share of international trade transactions are made through intermediaries and that whether firms use them or not depends on different factors. In this paper, we investigate whether credit constraints introduce a degree of difference among firms in their...

Firm performance is known to benefit from participation in import markets. For this reason, understanding whether credit constraints hamper firms' ability to purchase foreign inputs is a relevant issue. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial constraints and imports of...

We investigate if credit constraints introduce a degree of difference among firms in their mode of importing. First, we develop a simple theoretical framework highlighting the possible links between credit constraints and reliance on import intermediaries, and then use firm-level data from 66...