This paper presents theory and evidence from disaggregated Chinese data that tariff
reductions induce a country's producers to upgrade the quality of their exports. We first …

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the
complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few …

We study how contract enforcement and export experience shape firm export dynamics in an
environment with incomplete information. We show that exporters start with higher volumes …

This paper analyzes how a firm's specialization in its core products after exporting affects its
factor intensity and productivity. Using Chinese manufacturing firm data for the 1998–2007 …

This paper offers a theoretical foundation for the existence of wholesalers and other
intermediaries in international trade and analyzes their role in an economy with …

The present paper uses data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey conducted in Turkey in
2005 to shed light on the firms that use intermediaries in international trade. It lends robust …

This article studies how real exchange rate movements affect firm export behavior, using
monthly data that cover the universe of Chinese export transactions over the period of 2000 …

Half of all transactions in the $6 trillion market for manufactured goods in the United States
were intermediated by wholesalers in 2012, up from 32 percent in 1992. Seventy percent of …

This paper examines the impact of financial frictions on exports through trade intermediaries
theoretically and empirically. I present a heterogeneous firm model of trade intermediation …

Can religiosity affect the emergence and migration patterns of scientists? We focus on 19th-
century France, a period in which the Catholic Church had embraced a particularly …