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 …

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U … government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are … apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find that entry costs are significant …

manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable … for the rate of growth of exports than for the striking increase in export intensity. This increase in export intensity … income are the dominant sources for the export increase, while productivity increases in U.S. plants play a relatively small …