exports of goods with high transport costs and strong scale economies relative to their exports of goods with low transport … exports. For industries with moderately high transport costs, it is neighborhood market size that matters. In this case …, national market size plus market size in nearby countries determine national exports …

the tendency of new exporters to export on a small scale, to have low survival rates, and to take time to grow into large … tariffs arise from substituting away from firm creation and towards export capacity. This is in stark contrast to the static … their ability to grow into successful exporters. We calibrate the model and estimate the welfare gains from reducing tariffs …

years 1989-2001. Earlier CD-ROMs distributed by the NBER described data on U.S. imports and exports from 1972-1994, and …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United … considerable number of jobs. On balance over the entire 1991-2007 period, job gains due to changes in US global exports were …

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics …