This paper studies a number of features of transaction networks, firm sales growth, and buyer-supplier comovements of sales using a large-scale dataset on the Japanese interfirm transaction network. Larger firms have higher sales growth rates and smaller growth dispersion. Well-connected firms...

This paper offers a unified framework to analyze both short- and long-run trade dynamics with heterogeneous firms in a consistent manner. The model embeds the classical theory of export hysteresis into a continuous-time trade model with heterogeneous firms, and considers the effects of both...