structurally estimate the model using French firm-level export data. A given geographical regions is viewed as a target market …

multinationals depend on the level of productivity and the exporting status of the domestic firm. Larger and more productive firms … are more able to reap spillovers from multinationals than smaller and less productive firms. The export status, in …

corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits … effect on productivity at the firm level. The effect is negative across firms of different size and age classes except for …. This may partly explain the negative productivity effects of corporate taxes if new capital goods embody technological …

upgrading of the EU15 imports from its emerging neighbours. The EU15 trade with emerging markets in Asia have strengthened the …

In this paper, we estimate firm-level markups and test some micro-level predictions of a model of international trade … that firm markups are positively related to firm productivity and negatively related to the toughness of local competition …

An Indirect Exporter is defined as a firm that sells its product to a trade intermediary in its own country, who then … goes on to export the good. Despite the numerous appearances of these firms in recent theoretical models, there has been no … range of measures of firm performance. The advantage enjoyed by Direct Exporters is the most robust finding, while the …

understanding of trade. In particular, the recent work of Khandelwal (2010) has brought the insights of structural IO models of … demand to bear into trade data. Our work builds on this new structural literature; we use similar demand estimation … aggregate changes. In particular, we show that the quality ladder tightens in response to trade shocks as initially low quality …

productivity of local firms. To identify the causal effect of minimum wage growth, we use firm-level data for more than 160 … repercussions on employment. The main explanation for this finding is that productivity significantly improved, allowing firms to … higher minimum wages fostered aggregate productivity growth thanks to productivity improvements of incumbent firms and net …

In this paper, we study how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … the period 1995-2009. More specifically, we show that export performance is affected by both bilateral and multilateral … exacerbate the impacts of both bilateral and multilateral RER volatilities on export performance: firms tend to reallocate …