Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …

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 …

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 …