Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …

I develop and estimate a model of export dynamics featuring self-discovery that accounts well for new exporter dynamics …: (a) continuation rates that are increasing with tenure, and (b) growth rates of export sales that are decreasing with … discovery stage lasts as long as this option value is positive. I use the model to study the impact of export promotion policies …

-industrialization and high share of tourism sector, such as Croatia. The analysis in this paper rests on a balance sheet data of Croatian …

African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … correlated with export intensity at the firm level, and both embody strong scale effects. Technological factors, such as new … vintage capital and Internet access, which improve production efficiency and lower export costs, show strong effects on the …

demand benefits over all the markets the firm serves. This mechanism encourages firms to export and capture economies of …

We study the impact of exchange rate risk upon export production within an emerging economy lacking in currency forward … conditions under which export production is stimulated when the hedging device becomes more effective. In any case the exporting … firm benefits from imperfectly hedging exchange rate risk. -- Emerging markets ; transition economy ; export ; exchange …

We study the impact of exchange rate risk upon export production within an emerging economy lacking in currency forward … conditions under which export production is stimulated when the hedging device becomes more effective. In any case the exporting …

This paper examines the production, export and risk management decisions of a risk-averse competitive firm under … exchange rate risk. The firm is export flexible in allocating its output to either the domestic market or a foreign market … after observing the exchange rate. Export flexibility is restricted by certain minimum sales requirements that are due to …