The growth of Chinese exports in market share over the past two decades is a singular event in the history of world trade. Using data from 1995-2010, we document this growth in a variety of ways. We show that the expanded trade is pervasive. Virtually every country in the world has seen China...

The growth of Chinese exports both in volume and in market share over the past two decades is a singular event in the history of world trade. Using data from 1995-2005, we document this growth in a variety of ways. First, we show that the expanded trade is pervasive. Virtually every country in...

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms...