Nber Working Paper Series the Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
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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 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 multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. Andrew B. Bernard Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth 100 Tuck Hall Hanover, NH 03755 and NBER [email protected] J. Bradford Jensen McDonough School of Business Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 and NBER [email protected] Stephen J. Redding Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School Princeton University Fisher Hall Princeton NJ 08544-1021 and NBER [email protected] Peter K. Schott Yale School of Management 135 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06520-8200 and NBER [email protected]
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
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 international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm heterogeneity. Subsequent empirical research has examined additional predictions of these theories and explored o...
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