firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …

empirical results support the central predictions from the model. --intra-industry trade ; entry/exit ; heterogeneous firms …

determine critical trade cost values, this paper focuses on the interdependencies between agglomeration, specialization and the … determine the strength of linkages. Thus, these parameters affect how strong the industrial base responds to changes in trade …

confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- International trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …

stylized facts about low-wage country exporters, a theoretical model is developed to analyze reduced trade policy uncertainty …

. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found that the Fukushima trade cost shock reduced the average number of …

and imports to document facts about the amount of intra-good trade - the simultaneous export and import of identical goods … by one firm - in Germany. Combined data for trade transactions and for characteristics of a representative large sample … share of intra-good trade in total trade was some 17 percent in Germany in 2012. Intra-good trade matters. This share …

This paper looks at a hitherto neglected extensive margin of international trade by investigating for the first time … the frequency at which German exporters and importers trade a given good with a given country. Imports and exports show a … for trade with EU-countries, and this is the case for more than 60 percent of all firm-goodcountry combinations in trade …

the economic size and the per capita income of these countries, and in the ease of doing international trade with the …