The empirics of firm heterogeneity and international trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott

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Abstract: This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of inter- national 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 multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm 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)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2011-10-27
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Journal Article: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2012)
Working Paper: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2012)
Working Paper: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2011)
Working Paper: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2011)
Working Paper: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2011)
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