immigrant entrepreneurs have a positive, significant and economically meaningful effect on exports. We find that increasing the … stock of (non-entrepreneur) immigrants by 10% would lead to a 1.7% increase in exports in manufacturing towards immigrants …' countries of origin, while increasing the number of immigrant entrepreneurs in manufacturing by 10% would raise exports by about …

use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs. …

extensive and intensive trade margins using state-level exports to foreign nations. Our theoretical analysis provides definitive … intensive margin is approximated by the average firm exports of a state. Various count-data models, such as the standard …, empirical findings suggest that variable costs reduce average exports. A noteworthy finding is that U.S. foreign direct …

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our … dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways … networks ; state exports …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown … that Idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms played a decisive role in shaping the export collapse. -- exports ; great …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … advantages of trading firms are eaten up by extra costs related to selling and buying on foreign markets. -- exports ; imports …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. -- exports ; foreign direct investments …