This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and … export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and aggregate outcomes under arbitrary market interdependence. We find that … allowing for potential re-exporting arbitrage between countries imposes constraints on export prices of firms and has first …

depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …

and empirically the influence of variable and fixed export costs in explaining the likely heterogeneity in the trade … motivate theoretically the roles of variable trade costs and of fixed and variable export costs, respectively, for explaining … variables, capturing variable and fixed export costs. Fourth, we show that such estimated heterogeneous effects can predict 83 …