's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across … destinations and across exporting firms, and of the time-series variation in aggregate exports and its relation to time …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted …

survival is better if the initial export share is larger and exports are more differentiated. Previous experience with foreign …

margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin … adjustments of trade. Relatively few exporting firms account for the majority of Belgian exports and these large firms have … greater productivity and value-added, more employees and exported products. Across firms, productivity is positively …

This paper provides an estimation of the reaction of firm-level exports consecutive to real exchange rate movements … - the exchange rate elasticity of exports. Following recent theoretical works emphasizing the role played by firm … heterogeneity, we test in particular how the exchange rate elasticity may be a..ected by firm-level productivity, and how the …

There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the exsistence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity … econometric analyses reports that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. But what happens to their productivity … trajectory once they have entered? Theory points to the possibiliity of a further productivity boost, attributable to the effects …

and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export … relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … produced by the firm, so-called Carry-Along Trade (CAT). CAT exports are concentrated in the largest and most productive firms …

-sectoral resource allocation (IRA) and by within-sector selection of firms according to productivity (which we call Melitz selection …

channels. We investigate the factors that affect a firm's choice by comparing the payoff in each mode of exports. We formulate …

could well have accounted for around one-half of the spectacular increase in Spanish goods exports (the so-called “Spanish …

-sectoral resource allocation (IRA) and by within-sector selection of firms according to productivity (which we call Melitz selection …