. It exploits quasi-experimental variation in firms' foreign demand resulting from the global financial crisis, using … data from Ecuador, analysis finds that firms do not adjust workforce composition, but they permanently reduce capital which …

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports … too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases …

find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether … resulted in increased firms exports, particularly from those that had no digital presence, of differentiated products, and to …International trade is subject to information incompleteness. Firms must therefore engage in a costly search process to …

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … data we confirm that firms adjust on both margins for market size. In a stochastic setting, firms adjust to increased …

Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their … levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in "foreign" markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms … knowledge spillovers and other positive externalities. In such a stimulating environment, firms become more prone to be …