This article examines the performances of French exporting firms. Using a highly detailed database, we confirm that exporting firms are much bigger, more productive and more profitable than domestic ones. This difference is particularly strong for firms exporting to non-eu markets, and for small...

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

[spa] Internacionalización de las empresas industriales y empleo: un análisis sobre el periodo 1986-1992 . . El importar o exportar no es sin consecuencia sobre la evolución del nivel y de la estructura del empleo de una empresa. Esta relación entre «internacionalización» y empleo se...