model with cross-border trade and heterogeneous firms. Our approach separately identifies border-related from distance …-related variable costs and bounds the fixed cost of exporting for each firm. Variable border costs are large: equivalent to roughly 400 … costs are also important; removing them would increase German firms' market share in Denmark by 10 percentage points …

compared to previous studies and use Swedish firm-level inventory data on finished goods of own production to measure the …

This paper studies the relationship between firm-level markups and trade status using balance sheet information linked … markups both across and within firms. We argue that this correlation can reflect three channels: self-selection, higher … as a source of increased firm-level competitiveness. …

We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The … are also positively correlated with markups; (iii) Firms with affiliates have higher markups than other firms, while …

of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … is that the decision to import foreign intermediates improves productivity in manufacturing firms. This matters from a …International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the …

1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more … productive than non-surviving firms from this cohort in the start year. Results for Spain support all three hypotheses. This …

According to Gibrat' Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the … taking account of both the entry process and the role of survival/failure in reshaping a given population of firms over time …. It does so by focusing on the entire population of firms (including newborn ones) in the Italian Radio, TV …