Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most … productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export … participation and investigate whether firms' domestic network linkages can facilitate export entry. Firms receive information from …

theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import … intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import … intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import … intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing. We find that imports from China are much more important than imports from … other low-wage countries. Industry-level import competition from China reduced firm employment and induced skill upgrading …. Import competition from China alone can explain around 30 percent of the total skill upgrading in Belgian manufacturing …

theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import … intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and … Chinese imports is large. Industry import competition from China accounts for 42% (20%) of the within firm increase in the …

indicate that, both industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing to China reduce firm employment growth and … Chinese imports is large. Industry import competition from China accounts for 42% (20%) of the within firm increase in the …

key firm-level outcomes: export status and size. …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …