Microeconometrics of International Trade

Biography
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction: The Microeconometrics of International Trade-A Personal Review
 Characteristics of Exporting and Importing Firms in Germany
 Exports and Wages
 International Trade and Profits
 International Trade and Firm Survival
 Credit Constraints and International Trade
 Extensive Margins of Exports and Imports
 Methods of Empirical Analysis of Heterogeneous Exporters and Importers
 Concluding Remarks
 References
 Part I: Survey Papers
 1 Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm Level Data
 1. Introduction. 2. Investigating the Exports/Productivity Relationship: Empirical Strategies2.1. A standard approach
 2.2. Extensions
 3. A Survey of the Evidence, 1995-2005
 4. Concluding Remarks
 References
 Appendix
 2 International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies Since 2006
 Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. New Evidence on International Trade and Productivity
 2.1. Export destination and productivity in manufacturing firms
 2.2. Imports and productivity in manufacturing firms
 2.3. Beyond manufacturing: International trade and productivity in services firms. 3. Beyond Productivity: International Trade and Further Dimensions of Firm Performance3.1. International trade and wages
 3.2. Exports and profitability
 3.3. International trade and firm survival
 4. Conclusion
 Acknowledgment
 References
 Part II: Characteristics of Exporting and Importing Firms in Germany
 3 Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries. New Evidence from Representative Panel Data
 Abstract
 1. Motivation
 2. Theoretical Considerations and Hypothesis
 3. Data and Definition of Variables
 4. Observed Firm Characteristics and Export Activity. 4.1. Unconditional differences between exporters and non-exporters4.2. Conditional differences between exporters and non-exporters
 4.3. Firm characteristics and the share of exports in total sales
 5. Unobserved Firm Characteristics and Export Activity
 6. Productivity and Exports
 7. Concluding Remarks
 Acknowledgment
 References
 4 Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-selection, Learning from Importing or Both?
 Abstract
 1. Motivation
 2. Literature Review
 3. Data
 4. Productivity Premia for Firms in International Trade. 5. Do More Productive Firms Self-Select Into Importing?6. Do Import Starters BecomeMore Productive?
 6.1. Dynamic effect of imports on the pre-entry productivity growth
 6.2. Static effect of imports on the productivity level
 7. Concluding Remarks
 Acknowledgment
 References
 Appendix
 Part III: Exports and Wages
 5 Do Exporters Really Pay Higher Wages? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
 Abstract
 1. Motivation
 2. The Linked Employer-Employee Data Set
 3. Traditional Approach
 4. Individual Level Wage Regressions
 5. Conclusions
 Acknowledgements
 References.