investigate for the first time the links between the extensive margins of imports (the number of imported goods and the number of …

This note uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the link between firm age and the extensive margins of imports …

of idiosyncratic shocks to the largest firms in the dynamics of imports by firms from manufacturing industries. For … Germany we find evidence that imports are power-law distributed and that the distribution of imports in the industries can be …

or imports from increases. The extra costs associated with being active on more foreign markets tend to be smaller than …

imports is due to multiple sourcing. It is shown that the probability of multiple import sourcing and the share of imports … from multiple sourcing in total imports increase with firm productivity and firm size after controlling for detailed …

decade. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the … service imports in times of a sales drop. Second, financial constraints, which play a major role for goods trade, do not have … any significant effect on service imports. These results are in line with the argument that the generally observed crisis …