quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from … immigrant communities in the United States for identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation …

. We combine information on rejections with Chinese firm-level export data. Border rejections amplify the turnover among … exports from big and more productive exporters. …

increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefited overall, those competing most directly with imports … exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative …

We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a …

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process … technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively …

dispersed outcomes. As a result, credit frictions make firms smaller and more homogeneous, and hinder the volume of exports …. Export opportunities, instead, shift expected profits to the tail and increase the value of technological heterogeneity. We …, built from highly disaggregated US import data. Consistent with the model, financial development increases sales dispersion …

regional inequality based on cross-section data. Panel regressions investigate the within-country changes in inequality, i …