destinations, firm-level changes in market coverage and their contribution to net export growth are investigated. Firm involvement … in individual export markets is found to be much more dynamic than export status. Entry and exit to markets is shown to … be a quantifiably important component of overall export ows, with this factor becoming more important for less popular …

and Kramarz (2004), we find that a large number of firms serve only the domestic market and many exporting firms export to … individual export markets is much more dynamic. Over thirty percent of firms change their market coverage, usually by entering or … incurred during the initial entry to the export market. Subsequent entry to additional markets is made easier by prior export …