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

neighbors currently selling there, the level and heterogeneity of their export sales, and the firm's own prior knowledge about … the market. A positive signal about demand inferred from neighbors' export performance raises the firm's probability of … exit are independent of the prevalence of neighboring export activities. We find supporting evidence from the transaction …

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 …

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a cross section of monthly firm-product-destination level French export … uncertainty by reducing their sales and, for a given export volume, by reducing their number of shipments and increasing their …

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 …

Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …

We study the effect of subsidies subject to export share requirements (ESR) | that is, conditioned on a firm exporting … provides greater protection for domestic firms than a standard unconditional export subsidy, albeit at a substantial welfare …

An astonishing 33% of all firm-product-destination export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single …-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports … passive (i.e., buyer-side driven) one-off exporting in addition to the customary proactive export channel. This framework …