firm heterogeneity and international trade, together with some new facts. In particular, we find that importing can be as …This paper offers a portrait of Italian firms that trade goods. Combining data on firms' structural characteristics and … important as exporting as a source of firm heterogeneity. First, we document that trade is more concentrated than employment and …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … between trade status and firm characteristics. We uncover evidence supporting recent theories on firm heterogeneity and … heterogeneity among firms trading with different type of markets. We show that different destinations of exports and different …

firms, this paper adds to the existing literature, by assessing how the degree of involvement in international trade impacts …How do trade activities affect firms' employment and wages structures? Using firm level data on Italian manufacturing …

dissimilarity measures instead of rank correlations, we observe a great deal of variability among the product-mixes a firm exports …

This paper explores a newly-available panel data set merging balance sheet and international trade transaction data for … Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …

, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor … of FDI in certain regional industries are associated with higher performance indicators of firms' not receiving FDI in … those same regional industries. …

like competition and linkage effects through industrial and regional spillovers respectively. We use a simple Cournot … competition model in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms …