This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …

&D spending is found to have a larger impact on firm productivity in the export market than in the domestic market. Export market …. A 20 percent tariff on Swedish exports reduces the expected benefits of R&D by an average of 32.2 percent and lowers the … are 30.4 and 8.9 percent, respectively. R&D adjustments in response to export tariffs mainly occur on the intensive …

about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that … transact with a large number of countries. Second, the average importer imports more products than the average exporter exports … and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer …

We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct … firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were … outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciation have slower export growth, and …

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 …

-best production. The longer time needed for export shipments induces a tighter credit constraint on exporters than on purely domestic … fixed costs reduce exports on the extensive margin, but can be offset by collateral held by exporting firms. The empirical … reducing exports …

export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies … export entry. I estimate my model on standard firm-level data and find substantial additional productivity gains from … entering export markets …

exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical …

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 …