The empirics of firm heterogeneity and international trade

AB Bernard, JB Jensen, SJ Redding… - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2012 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

E Verhoogen - Journal of Economic Literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

Quantifying the sources of firm heterogeneity

CJ Hottman, SJ Redding… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We develop and structurally estimate a model of heterogeneous multiproduct firms that can
be used to decompose the firm-size distribution into the contributions of …

The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach

AB Bernard, E Dhyne, G Magerman… - Journal of Political …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
We explore firm size heterogeneity in production networks. In comprehensive data for
Belgium, firms with more customers have higher total sales but lower sales and lower market …

Export prices across firms and destinations

K Manova, Z Zhang - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This article establishes six stylized facts about firms' export prices using detailed customs
data on the universe of Chinese trade flows. First, across firms selling a given product …

Multi-product firms and product quality

K Manova, Z Yu - Journal of International Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
We examine the global operations of multi-product firms. We present a flexible
heterogeneous-firm trade model with either limited or strong scope for quality differentiation …

The extensive margin of exporting products: A firm-level analysis

C Arkolakis, S Ganapati, MA Muendler - American Economic Journal …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
To quantify trade frictions, we examine multiproduct exporters. We build a flexible general-
equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination …

Export destinations and input prices

P Bastos, J Silva, E Verhoogen - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
This paper examines the relationship between the destination of exports and the input prices
paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. Both …

Multiproduct‐firm oligopoly: An aggregative games approach

V Nocke, N Schutz - Econometrica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We develop an aggregative games approach to study oligopolistic price competition with
multiproduct firms. We introduce a new class of IIA demand systems, derived from …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-product firms at home and away: Cost-versus quality-based competence

C Eckel, L Iacovone, B Javorcik, JP Neary - Journal of International …, 2015 - Elsevier
We develop a new model of multi-product firms which invest to improve the perceived quality
of both their individual products and their brand. Because of flexible manufacturing, products …