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 …