import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US relations with Euroland and Canada, cointegration analyses however …

gas and its hydrocarbons and to import consumer and capital goods. Exports compose a major proportion of GDP. Annual data …

import functions or export-led growth. Focusing on the US relations with Euroland and Canada, cointegration analyses however …

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

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or … 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 …