This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …

export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies … export entry. I estimate my model on standard firm-level data and find substantial additional productivity gains from … entering export markets …

volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing … environment and product-specific factors play important roles in explaining the existence of export intermediaries. These … export intermediaries to overcome country and product fixed costs means that they can more easily respond along the extensive …

and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms' export and import decisions …

Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific export patterns over the period 1996 … previous year. These new exporters tend to be extremely small in terms of their overall contribution to export revenues, and … most do not continue exporting in the following year. Hence export sales are dominated by a small number of very large and …

We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct … outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciation have slower export growth, and … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with quot …