Firms in International Trade

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how recent “heterogeneous-firm” models of int...

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Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how recent “heterogeneous-firm” models of int...

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May 2007 Firms in International Trade Andrew

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how recent “heterogeneous-firm” models of int...

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Do Firms Learn from International Trade?

Using patent citations as a proxy for the influence of foreign technology on French firms’ patents, this paper finds that the inventions of importers are significantly more likely to be influenced by foreign technology than are the inventions of firms that do not import. Furthermore, importers’ citations increase relative to similar firms after they start importing. Exporting, in contrast, is n...

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International Trade Agreements , Environmental Policy , and Emergence of Multinational Firms ∗

During recent decades there has been substantial momentum for trade liberalization. At the same time, multinational production has become increasingly important in international competition. In this paper we show that these phenomena may be linked through environmental policy. When the national governments cannot use direct trade policy measures, environmental policy is distorted towards enhanc...

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