export experience in a market are more likely to source service inputs from there. We rationalize this fact in a model where … firms are initially uncertain about how successful they are as exporters, but learn their export profitability as they keep … selling abroad. Because offshoring requires larger sunk costs than domestic sourcing, some firms decide to offshore only when …

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 …

firm-level export performance. Past studies have used both absolute numbers as well as performance ratings as a part of … measuring firms’ export performance. It is also revealed that export performance being a multi-dimensional phenomenon is best … in this field, the paper highlights some key trends in measurement of firm-level export performance …

between offshoring and exports. We model a world consisting of many advanced countries that trade differentiated goods among … world economy allows more final goods producers to become exporters and raises the export quantities of incumbent exporters … ("export-magnification effect"). At the same time, the least productive firms are forced to leave the market. Both effects …

be partly explained by the export-magnification effect of offshoring. In a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … firms we show analytically that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in differentiated final goods through an … intra-industry reallocation of resources towards the more productive firms. More specifically, lower barriers to offshoring …