Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …

has a stronger effect on volatility than a similar change in firms' export intensity. We also uncover evidence consistent …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we … distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is …

differ from those in an export-only model. Calibrating our model to rich firm-level data from France and Norway, our main …

theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …, productivity and industry affiliation. These differences between foreign-owned firms and domestically controlled firms are highly …

intertemporal selection effects. -- export ; FDI ; uncertain productivity growth ; real option approach … between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … and sheds light on the effects of productivity growth. On the basis of a Geometric Brownian motion, three different …

productive ones will export. In addition, the most productive firms are shown to prefer whole ownership to a joint venture. These …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …