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Firms and Economic Performance: A View from Trade

Alessandra Bonfiglioli (), Rosario Crino () and Gino Gancia

No 1047, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries' market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean. To further explore the role of exceptional firms, we develop a novel decomposition that identifies the contribution of deviations from continuous distributions. We then study how the distribution of firm-level characteristics varies across countries. Our results shed new light on how firms shape aggregate economic performance.

Keywords: US imports; firm heterogeneity; international trade; prices; Quality; variety; granularity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03
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