"The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy" presents a new
research program that is transforming the study of international
trade. Driven by the availability of new micro data sets and
innovative theoretical models, it focuses on the level of firms,
products, and stages of production rather than on countries and
industries. It addresses such questions as why only a small
proportion of firms in a given industry export and why an even
smaller proportion invest abroad; why exporters tend to be more
productive than nonexporters; why almost one-third of international
trade takes place between units of the same firm and why as much as
two-thirds involves multinational firms as exporter, importer, or
both; and why international trade may have been the most important
driver of organizational changes in the corporation that have been
taking place in the last decade.
Until a few years ago, models of international trade did not
recognize the heterogeneity of firms and exporters, and could not
provide good explanations of international production networks. Now
such models exist and are explored in this volume.
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