This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and … diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (`brand equity'), whereas trade through an … trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …