This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export … behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them … to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms facing higher fixed export costs are less likely to export …

productivity improvements due to entry into export markets suggesting that the productivity gains are associated with the removal …

One feature of exporting firms in Cambodia is that they are not of domestic origin but are foreign firms that export …-owned export firms impacts on the productivity of domestic firms. We consider two channels: first, the extent to which export … relieving institutional constraints for export firms has positive impacts on the productivity of all firms, including non-export …

export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found … exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm …

Financing constraints have been identified as an additional source of firm heterogeneity that affects export … participation and export performance. This paper examines whether and to what extent financing constraints affect firms' exporting … indicate that firms which were less constrained financially were more likely to export, while financing constraints did not …

uncover the determinants of the fickle and stable parts of firm export product mix, we use a cross section of firm …

Using evidence from Colombia, the authors study the relationship between firms' productivity and their export market …

entering into the export market. We find evidence in support of both self-selection and learning by exporting. …

into major regional and global actors. In this paper we question how MRs arriving in foreign markets affect the export … establishing outlets abroad impact the export performance of local firms and test its predictions empirically for the agri … intermediaries. First, incoming multinational retailers may increase the overall export capacity of local firms to any foreign market …

This paper investigates the relation between firms' productivity and exporting behavior in presence of export … productivity-sorting prediction according to which domestic firms are less efficient than those resorting to an export intermediary …, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly. Our novel finding is that firms' productivity has …