investigate for the first time the links between the extensive margins of imports (the number of imported goods and the number of …

This note uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the link between firm age and the extensive margins of imports …

of idiosyncratic shocks to the largest firms in the dynamics of imports by firms from manufacturing industries. For … Germany we find evidence that imports are power-law distributed and that the distribution of imports in the industries can be …

or imports from increases. The extra costs associated with being active on more foreign markets tend to be smaller than …

imports is due to multiple sourcing. It is shown that the probability of multiple import sourcing and the share of imports … from multiple sourcing in total imports increase with firm productivity and firm size after controlling for detailed …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports ("learning-by-importing"). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with … productive enterprises into imports, but no evidence for positive effects of importing on productivity due to learning …