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

exporting only. Second, exploiting firm-level information on the destination of export and the origin of imports, we observe the … international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that …

- 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 …

This study examines the marginal effects of traditional determinants of exports and imports with a focus on the role of … harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) on both exports and imports of both goods and services across individual euro area … of services are also found more sensitive to competitiveness indicators based on broader price measures. Imports of goods …

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 … starting to export. In a sequence, exporting may enable firms to introduce further innovations. These positive learning effects …

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 …