dispersed outcomes. As a result, credit frictions make firms smaller and more homogeneous, and hinder the volume of exports …. Export opportunities, instead, shift expected profits to the tail and increase the value of technological heterogeneity. We …. These results can be important for explaining the effect of financial development and factor endowments on export sales …

Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model …

estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks …

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only …, where exports are classified as ordinary trade, import-and-assembly processing trade (processing firm sources and pays for …

exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with …We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of … theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

non-exporters. However, selecting high export potentials is difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to … characterize and identify these (high) export potentials. According to the Melitz (2003) model, potential exporters have to be … productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export …

To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on … Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China's 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of … export activities across firms, largely due to extensive margin entries and exits. In addition we document accompanying …

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 …