Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific export patterns over the period 1996 … previous year. These new exporters tend to be extremely small in terms of their overall contribution to export revenues, and … most do not continue exporting in the following year. Hence export sales are dominated by a small number of very large and …

domestic welfare through two channels. First, by reducing export income volatility and allowing for a smoother consumption path … to borrow against future export income). Under plausibly calibrated parameters, the second channel may lead to much …

We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export … export markets but shortly exit when it learns its per- period fixed costs. We apply this insight to disaggregated export … data and confirm that indeed most export relationships are very short lived. We then show that the survival issue is a …

's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper develops a … raise its export price in industries where the scope for quality differentiation is large while to lower its export price in …

Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …

identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … customs records of U.S. imports of manufactures from Colombia we replicate patterns of exporter maturation. A potentially … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …

As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are … continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model … of export supply that characterizes these two decisions and estimate the model using plant-level panel data on Colombian …

"This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the … marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation … into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the … marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation … into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …