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Exporters, importers and credit constraints
Muûls, Mirabelle - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
trade are related to credit constraints show a significant difference between the two. In the case of exports, it is the … extensive margin of exports in terms of destinations that is significantly associated with credit constraints whereas for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746016
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Imports and exports at the level of the firm: evidence from Belgium
Muuls, Mirabelle; Pisu, Mauro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745332
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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746589
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Does family control affect trade performance?: evidence for Italian firms
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745788
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Trade liberalization, outsourcing, and firm productivity
Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel explanation for this finding. I develop a simple general equilibrium model of trade in which trade liberalization leads to outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745324
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Survival of the best fit: exposure to low-wage countries and the (uneven) growth of U.S. manufacturing plants
Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997. It introduces a new measure of industry exposure to international trade, motivated by the Heckscher-Ohlin model, which focuses on where imports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071123
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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change
Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … exports and imports with tariff changes and controlling for selection, I find robust evidence that access to export markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198538
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Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)
Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744846
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Trade crisis? What trade crisis?
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
find that changes in firm-country-product exports and imports occurred mostly atthe intensive margin: the number of firms … and countrycharacteristics. The most important factor explaining changes in exports is the destination country … explanatorypower on the exports and imports fall respectively, but appear to have affected domestic operations inequal proportion. More …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744902
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Heterogeneous firms and trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745182