Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - 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 trade costs reduced entry by new Korean firms, increased their …