-- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation … of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A reduction in the offshoring cost affects intrafirm and … competition effect. The key parameters determining the impact of offshoring on reallocation of jobs at various margins as well as …

This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U …, we find that offshoring multinational activity and preferential market access are positively and consistently correlated … equations approaches to address the likely endogeneity of export-oriented foreign investment, we find that each $1 billion in U …

Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …

effects on export growth. A shock of one standard deviation to a country's supply of trade finance decreases exports, on … aggregate uncertainty is high. Our results imply that global banks affect export patterns and suggest that trade finance played …

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …, namely, that export opportunities increase firm heterogeneity by fostering innovation …

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a cross section of monthly firm-product-destination level French export … uncertainty by reducing their sales and, for a given export volume, by reducing their number of shipments and increasing their …