Bonfiglioli, AlessandraCrinò, RosarioGancia, Gino A.Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2020-05-252020-05-252018-03-01http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44767We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average attributes (quality and efficiency) and heterogeneity around the mean. To further explore the role of exceptional firms, we develop a novel decomposition that identifies the contribution of deviations from continuous distributions. We then study how the distribution of firm-level characteristics varies across countries. Our results shed new light on how firms shape aggregate economic performance.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsFirms and economic performance: A view from trade<resourceType xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" resourceTypeGeneral="Other">info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper</resourceType><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">us imports</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">firm heterogeneity</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">international trade</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">prices</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">quality</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">variety</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">granularity.</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">Macroeconomics and International Economics</subject><rights xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3">info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>