. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export … behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them … to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms facing higher fixed export costs are less likely to export …

impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …

theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …

This paper presents a dynamic model of risk-averse producers' decision to invest in physical capital and to export. The … model features irreversible investment, no capital markets and fixed and sunk costs to export. Several features of the … distribution of investment rates and export participation patterns observed in firm-level data are closely matched in a calibration …

productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …, namely, that export opportunities increase firm heterogeneity by fostering innovation …