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

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 …

As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are … continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model … of export supply that characterizes these two decisions and estimate the model using plant-level panel data on Colombian …

identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … customs records of U.S. imports of manufactures from Colombia we replicate patterns of exporter maturation. A potentially … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …

Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems …

the export sector. We then estimate this model using pooled data on four pollutants over ten years. Econometric results …

We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export … export markets but shortly exit when it learns its per- period fixed costs. We apply this insight to disaggregated export … data and confirm that indeed most export relationships are very short lived. We then show that the survival issue is a …

. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …