
We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how competition across market destinations affects both a firm’s exported product range and product mix. We show how tougher competition in an export market induces a firm to skew its export sales toward its best performing products. We find very strong confirmation of this competitive effect for French exporters across export market destinations. Theoretically, this within-firm change in product mix driven by the trading environment has important repercussions on firm productivity. A calibrated fit to our theoretical model reveals that these productivity effects are potentially quite large. (JEL D21, D24, F13, F14, F41, L11)
330, ddc:330, Marktgröße, trading partners; multiproduct firms; trade models, Exportwirtschaft, Competition; Markups; Multi-product firms; Product Mix, Mehrproduktfertigung, Produktmanagement, PRODUCT MIX, COMPETITION, MARKUPS, MULTI-PRODUCT FIRMS, trading partners, multi product firms, trade models, Product mix;Competition;Markups;Multi-product firms, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Product Mix; Competition; Markups; Multi-product firms, Theorie, jel: jel:D21, jel: jel:F41, jel: jel:F13, jel: jel:F14, jel: jel:D24, jel: jel:F12, jel: jel:L11, jel: jel:F0
330, ddc:330, Marktgröße, trading partners; multiproduct firms; trade models, Exportwirtschaft, Competition; Markups; Multi-product firms; Product Mix, Mehrproduktfertigung, Produktmanagement, PRODUCT MIX, COMPETITION, MARKUPS, MULTI-PRODUCT FIRMS, trading partners, multi product firms, trade models, Product mix;Competition;Markups;Multi-product firms, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Product Mix; Competition; Markups; Multi-product firms, Theorie, jel: jel:D21, jel: jel:F41, jel: jel:F13, jel: jel:F14, jel: jel:D24, jel: jel:F12, jel: jel:L11, jel: jel:F0
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