their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

productivity differentials: in equilibrium, firms that employ workers with comparatively scarcer skills, other things equal, export … of predicting a positive correlation between firms' export intensity, the price of their exports, and the wages they pay …

in a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition in export markets with lower … corporate tax rates. This competitive effect induces firms to reduce the number of exported products and to skew their export …

export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

We show that in successful episodes of export market entry, there are statistically and economically significant post …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms that do not directly import therefore depends on the extent that wholesalers are a feature of input supply within an …