Leading theories suggest that amongst continuing exporters, lower variable trade costs should boost exports of smaller firms by the same or greater percentage rate than larger firms. However, investigating impact deep EU-South Korea FTA with French customs data, we find robust evidence to contrary. Applying a triple-difference framework, report increased sales in top quartile continuous exporte...

Abstract The paper examines the impact of trade credit on cyclical fluctuations in international trade. It provides new empirical evidence based firm-level UK and Irish data showing that exporters use more actively intensively than non-exporters. study introduces inter-firm lending into an open economy general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms endogenous entry exports market. demonstra...