Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked … experience at other exporters. We show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments … reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that expected export …

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 …

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 …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …, at both the industry level and the local commuting zone level, the global export expansion of US products also creates a … import and export exposure is roughly balanced at the commuting zone level …

detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export …

This paper shows that how firms export (directly or indirectly via intermediaries) matters. We develop and estimate a … differ by export mode. We find that demand and productivity evolve more favorably under direct exporting, though the fixed … the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

We show that in successful episodes of export market entry, there are statistically and economically significant post …

their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …