activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

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 … too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases …

sales, and we show that import is even more concentrated than export both within sectors and along the sector and country … diversification of imports. …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or … exporting only. Second, exploiting firm-level information on the destination of export and the origin of imports, we observe the …

- namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that only import. We show that two-way traders have a … export or import. The paper also looks at how the wages and the skill structure of the trading firms change with the country …

processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of Spanish firms …, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the firm of total factor productivity …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest … 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 …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …