Intermediaries such as trading companies, agents and merchants have played a key role in
international business for centuries. Despite the growing importance of understanding the …

When entering international markets, manufacturers of consumer products are expected to
adapt their products in order to meet local consumption practices. Doing so is particularly …

This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of
employment growth at different age classes. We address this research question resorting to …

Recent studies suggest that intermediaries like merchants facilitate international trade by
reducing fixed trade costs for producers that trade through them instead of exporting or …

Firm performance is known to benefit from participation in import markets. For this reason,
understanding whether credit constraints hamper firms' ability to purchase foreign inputs is a …

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 …

For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main non-transportation cost
component of international trade was government imposed tariffs, quotas and other barriers …

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the
COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 …

The authors consider main trends and perspectives of trade relations between Ukraine and
the Visegrad countries. There has been a significant reduction in Ukraine's foreign trade in …

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in
the academic literature and policy debate. We use a recently developed econometric …