Damijan, Joze; Konings, Joep; Polanec, Saso - Vlaams Instituut voor Economie en Samenleving (VIVES), … - 2012
This paper documents that a large fraction of trade flows at the firm level consists of simultaneous imports and exports in identical products, narrowly defined at the 8-digit product classification, which we call Pass-On Trade, POT. We use data on imports and exports at the firm–product level...