Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...
