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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2010
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 203
Verlag: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Zusammenfassung: 
New empirical and theoretical work has highlighted the importance of multi-product firms in international tradeflows. We examine multi-product exporters in the small open economy of Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin adjustments of trade. Linking production and export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters. The large majority of Belgian manufacturing firms export products that they do not produce. More than three quarters of the exported products and more than one quarter of export value from Belgian manufacturers are in goods that are not produced by the firm, so-called Carry-Along Trade (CAT). CAT exports are concentrated in the largest and most productive firms and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export value of goods that the firm produces.
Schlagwörter: 
heterogeneous firms
multi-product firms
carry-along trade
productivity
trade costs
intermediation
JEL: 
F12
F13
F14
L11
Dokumentart: 
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