Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the … fluctuation of the growth rate of trade balance is derived. These are the novel features of our model. The export price equation … and export volume equation are estimated for several Asian countries for the sample period of 1981 to 1996. Results are …

This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills …

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

is unchanged. A higher-quality foreign workforce raises the variety of contractual trade, but at the expense of generics …

We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …

, Japan, and Korea %u2013 tend to share similar and moderate values of the substitution elasticity. For the five ASEAN …