The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen (), Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

Annual Review of Economics, 2012, vol. 4, issue 1, 283-313

Abstract: This article reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from microdata on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm heterogeneity. Subsequent empirical research has examined additional predictions of these theories and explored other dimensions of the data not originally captured by them. These other dimensions include multiproduct firms, offshoring, intrafirm trade and firm export market dynamics.

Keywords: heterogeneous firms; exporting; importing; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F12 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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