Global firms

AB Bernard, JB Jensen, SJ Redding… - Journal of Economic …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as
attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in …

Dissecting the effect of credit supply on trade: Evidence from matched credit-export data

D Paravisini, V Rappoport, P Schnabl… - The review of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We estimate the elasticity of exports to credit using matched customs and firm-level bank
credit data from Peru. To account for non-credit determinants of exports, we compare …

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 …

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 …

Product mix and firm productivity responses to trade competition

T Mayer, MJ Melitz, GIP Ottaviano - Review of Economics and …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multiproduct exporters to
reallocate the mix of products sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand …

Selection and market reallocation: Productivity gains from multinational production

L Alfaro, MX Chen - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 - aeaweb.org
Assessing productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of
economic research and policy debate. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to …

Sequentially exporting products across countries

F Albornoz, HFC Pardo, G Corcos, E Ornelas - Journal of International …, 2023 - Elsevier
Exploiting disaggregated data on French exporters, we show that firms expand their product
scope and geographical presence sequentially. This process of internationalization is …

One way to the top: How services boost the demand for goods

A Ariu, F Mayneris, M Parenti - Journal of International Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we take advantage of a uniquely detailed dataset on firm-level exports of both
goods and services to show that the provision of services increases firms' manufacturing …

Exporting firms' factor and product-quality adjustments in response to employment protection legislation: Evidence from China

G Li, PH Egger, J Li, H Wu - China Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Employment-protection legislation (EPL) is known to reduce the unemployment risk of
workers and employees and implicitly raises the costs of labor as a factor of production, in …