We document how export quantities and prices evolve after entry to a market. Controlling for marginal cost, and taking …

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

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 …

liquidity are able to export. A set of firms could profitably export, but they are prevented from doing so because they lack … inherit a large amount of liquidity, are more likely to export. This model predicts that the scarcer the available liquidity …

I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …, Kortum and Kramarz, in particular the higher sales in France of firms that choose to export to more destinations. The model … predicts that most firms do not export, and that a large proportion of firms that export in particular markets do so in small …

This paper investigates the determinants of countries' export performance looking in particular at the role of … decomposition we move on to an econometric analysis of the determinants of export performance. Results include the finding that poor … explaining Sub-Saharan Africa's poor export performance …

Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked … experience at other exporters. We show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments … reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that expected export …

to invest in large export networks that are valuable to foreign multinationals because of locational differences and … network as valuable to serve independently, increasing the surplus generated by a foreign acquisition. From the theory we … derive a dynamic panel binary choice empirical model that uses predetermined export activity and the evolution of target firm …