In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their … domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past … several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage and …

This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system …

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 …

multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the … distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per firm in a market) is similar across markets, and (iii) within each … market, exporter scope is positively associated with average sales per product. Our data also show that firms systematically …

latter, and shows that the availability of the private label option results in greater total export volumes and lower average …

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 …