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 …

identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …

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 …

manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export participation, with most selling only at home; (2) The number of firms …

economies that export goods to the U.S., Japan, and neighboring countries. The optimality of the exchange rate regime is defined …

We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …

data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows …