aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level … heterogeneity is an important determinant of relative export and FDI flows. We use the model to derive testable empirical … predictions on the relative aggregate export and FDI sales in a given country for a given sector based both on relative costs and …

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 investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market … export market. This in turn reduces profits and therefore innovation incentives particularly for firms with low productivity …. Overall the positive impact of the export shock on innovation is magnified for high productivity firms, whereas it may …

We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …