multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …

' exporting and importing behavior, both at the extensive and intensive margins. Our results support the assertion that trade … credits have a positive impact on firms' exporting and importing activities. …

multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country … imports, as well as those countries' characteristics. In contrast to canonical models of exporting in which firm profits are … additively separable across exporting markets, we show that global sourcing decisions naturally interact through the firm's cost …

spillovers from export oriented vs domestic market oriented FDI, and allow for differing effects depending on domestic firms …’ export activities. The results suggest that the mechanisms through which spillovers affect domestic firms are very complex …

, of current and future export products. Our findings are consistent with quality upgrading taking place in preparation for … entry into export markets. We show that manufacturers who export a particular product variety tend to obtain a price premium … for their domestic sales of this variety. Consistently with the hypothesis of quality upgrading before exporting, we find …

-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export … data at the firm-product level, we find that the overwhelming majority of manufacturing firms export products that they do … not produce. Three quarters of the exported products and thirty percent of export value from Belgian manufacturers are in …

subsidies on firms’ export performance. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies stimulate export activity … more pronounced amongst profit-making firms, firms in capital intensive industries and those with previous exporting …

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data …. Our results suggest that if grants are large enough they can encourage already exporting firms to compete more effectively … on the international market. However, there is little evidence that grants encourage non-exporters to start exporting. …