data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows … that it accounts for both the large share of a small number of firms in sales around the world and for zeros in bilateral …

manufacturing firms. The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination. Looking across all … manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export participation, with most selling only at home; (2) The number of firms … exports to each destination into the size of the market and French share, variation in market share translates nearly …

Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …

preference by economists for factor or product taxes and subsidies over tariffs and export subsidies may not be justified in this …

States, not only as a source of imports, but also as a destination for U.S. exports than most countries in Western Europe … relationships in that the residual correlation among exports, imports, and outward direct foreign investment is much larger than …

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 …

around the world. Consistent with the theory we find that the importance of DFI relative to exports grows with population … open to U.S. exports than any region in the world except East Asia …We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …