Impullitti, Giammario; Irarrazabal, Alfonso A.; … - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 1, pp. 75-90
This paper introduces idiosyncratic firm efficiency shocks into a continuous-time general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms. The presence of sunk export entry costs and efficiency uncertainty gives rise to hysteresis in export market participation. A firm will enter into the...