In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al …. We argue that in the purchase of services, buyers face uncertainty about product quality, especially when production is …

Using domestic and export price data and a framework of markup over cost, pricing behavior of U.S. and Japanese … manufacturers is compared. Major export industries in Japan have higher productivity growth and lower pass-through coefficients than … American exporters, who tend to price to domestic cost. Japanese firms seem to price discriminate between domestic, and export …