Multi-product exporters, carry-along trade and the margins of trade
New empirical and theoretical work has highlighted the importance of multi-product firms in international tradeflows. We examine multi-product exporters in the small open economy of Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin adjustments of trade. Linking production and export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing ex... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Brussels: National Bank of Belgium
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / F12 / F13 / F14 / L11 / heterogeneous firms / multi-product firms / carry-along trade / productivity / trade costs / intermediation / Exportwirtschaft / Mehrproduktfertigung / Produktivität / Transaktionskosten / Vermittlungstätigkeit / Industrie / Belgien |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26543478 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/144415 |