The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

被引:283
作者
Bernard, Andrew B. [1 ,6 ,7 ]
Jensen, J. Bradford [2 ,6 ,8 ]
Redding, Stephen J. [3 ,4 ,6 ,7 ]
Schott, Peter K. [5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Dartmouth Coll, Tuck Sch Business, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
[2] Georgetown Univ, McDonough Sch Business, Washington, DC 20057 USA
[3] Princeton Univ, Dept Econ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[4] Princeton Univ, Woodrow Wilson Sch, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[5] Yale Univ, Yale Sch Management, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[6] Natl Bur Econ Res, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[7] Ctr Econ Policy Res, London EC1V 3PZ, England
[8] Peterson Inst Int Econ, Washington, DC 20036 USA
来源
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS, VOL 4 | 2012年 / 4卷
关键词
heterogeneous firms; exporting; importing; productivity; MULTIPRODUCT FIRMS; PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION; VERTICAL SPECIALIZATION; INTERMEDIATE INPUTS; US; LIBERALIZATION; EXPORTERS; QUALITY; IMPACT; GROWTH;
D O I
10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-110928
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
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 existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm heterogeneity. Subsequent empirical research has examined additional predictions of these theories and explored other dimensions of the data not originally captured by them. These other dimensions include multiproduct firms, offshoring, intrafirm trade and firm export market dynamics.
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页数:31
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