local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used … scope. Using a structural model, we estimate that the simultaneous export and import in a given country reduces export and …

rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along … downward-sloping supplies. Heterogeneity in responses, rather than specialization, drives export variation across countries …

examining the 2013-2015 export slowdown in China. We exploit detailed customs data and the variation they reveal about Chinese …. Prefectures that experienced a more severe export slowdown witnessed a significant increase in incidents of labor strikes. This … be predicted from the observed export slowdown, suggesting that local leaders were held to account on yardsticks related …

decision by both state controlled and private entities to export in a model with labor adjustment costs. In this complex … environment, a simple decision rule whereby export status depends only on current productivity does not hold. Nor does this rule … match data patterns. The estimated model is used to understand the factors that influence export status. The analysis …

their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …

and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms' export and import decisions …

We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct … outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciation have slower export growth, and … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with "earning …

predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is … product, China's export unit values should be increasing in distance. We find strong support for this effect in our empirical …