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 …

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 …

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 …

show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of … dispersion, the distribution of export intensity has two modes in the boundaries of the support and their height is determined by … export intensity. Our results show that when the conditions for the existence of twin peaks are met, differences in relative …

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. …

' export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … 1996-2007, we show that firms with higher export intensity exhibit a lower volatility of skilled labor demand relative to … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …

study how different types of sanctions affect the export behaviour of firms to the targeted countries. We combine Danish … from the Global Sanctions Database. Our data allow us to study firms' export behaviour in 62 sanctioned countries …-stage estimation strategy to properly account for multilateral resistance terms. We find that, on average, sanctions lead to a …