TY - UNPB

T1 - International Trade and Firm Performance

T2 - A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2011/8

Y1 - 2011/8

N2 - The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. Thispaper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both futureempirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on the empirical part of the literature thatconsists of recently published papers using data for firms from manufacturing orservices industries to study the links between international trade (exports and imports) and dimensions of firm performance (productivity, wages, profitability andsurvival). It discusses recent add-ons to the box of tools for empirical investigation in this field and suggests topics for future research.

AB - The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. Thispaper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both futureempirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on the empirical part of the literature thatconsists of recently published papers using data for firms from manufacturing orservices industries to study the links between international trade (exports and imports) and dimensions of firm performance (productivity, wages, profitability andsurvival). It discusses recent add-ons to the box of tools for empirical investigation in this field and suggests topics for future research.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - International trade,

KW - firm performance

KW - empirical studies

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - International Trade and Firm Performance

ER -