We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In … empirical fact that firm size is not monotonically related with export status: there are small firms that export and large firms … heterogeneity as they imply no variation in export status after size is controlled for. We find strong support for the predictions …

top-quality products on the intensive margin. The product quality ladder also governs firms ’ export dynamics, both in …

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 …

context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum …

The fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much … the effect of distance, distinct from any border effect. Export destinations tend to be further than domestic destinations …

This paper presents theory and evidence from highly disaggregated Chinese data that tariff reductions induce a country …'s producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper develops a …

We explore in this paper the role of export subsidies when goods arriving from foreign countries are initially of … goods, consumers view price as a signal of quality, a role for export subsidies can arise. In particular, we show that … absent export subsidies, entry of high quality firms may be blocked by their inability to sell at prices reflecting their …

relationship between a country's export mix and its wage (GDP per capita). We show that this non-monotonicity permeates the 1980 … and (2) for the poorest third of countries, changes in export mix substantially over-predict growth in GDP per capita …

As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are … continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model … of export supply that characterizes these two decisions and estimate the model using plant-level panel data on Colombian …