The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more … anticipated market-entry cost for export starters. This effect is strongest in markets with more or less homogeneous products. I …

This paper addresses sequential entry decisions in export markets. It focuses on externalities derived from previous … export activity in countries close to those for which a potential entry decision is taken (geographical spillovers) and … export markets, though both are smaller in magnitude than the effects coming from previous presence. …

and where fixed export costs are heterogeneous across firms. This model traces many of the stylized facts of international … trade. However, we find that with heterogeneous fixed export costs there exists a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes …

from the heterogeneous firms literature suggests that firms face market entry costs for each new product they export and to … each new export market. Transport costs, border costs and retail and wholesale distribution costs might add up to 170% of … the export value, but formal import tariffs and duties are relatively unimportant. The results by the Observatory of …

robust result— few firms export, and exporting firms do not sell in all possible markets. This paper uses data on US exports … average export sales per firm (the intensive margin). We show how the effects of distance and a range of other proxies for …

its exports, as well as (ii) the relationship between the export prices of a firm and its productivity. The paper extends … costs. There are three key findings. First, there exists a positive relationship between firm productivity and export prices … facing tighter credit constraints. Our finding of a significant impact of credit constraints on export prices indicates the …