individually larger, with export value extremely concentrated in a few firms. Firm churning rates are disproportionately low and … survival rates of entrants are high. These findings reflect exceptionally high entry costs of export, which are the result of … anti-export bias and import substitution policies that sought unsuccessfully to develop the local industry. The paper shows …

related to import processing times at the border could impact downstream export dynamics. Exploiting a rich data set built on …, and survival in export markets. The analysis finds that uncertainty in the time to clear imported inputs impacts neither …-sensitivity of buyers in developed countries. The results also reveal heterogeneous effects across export industries, as well as the …