studies firm entry and exit in foreign markets and their role in the post-recession recovery of U.S. exports using … larger export volumes, however, compensating for the decline in the number of exporting firms. Thus, while entry and exit … confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau. We find that incumbent exporters account for the vast majority of the decline …

enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more … 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that …

and using new production technologies. This paper conjectures that outmoded production technologies may underpin the exit …

raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007 …