' decision to export. The model sheds light on the affirmations of the founding models of the 'new theory of international trade …', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into … firms, regardless of their productivity level, enter foreign markets every year with little sales and cease all exporting …

potentially heterogeneous effects of the different modes of export market entry. We study how productivity of firms is affected by …Most of the empirical studies on the micro-level effects of exporting on productivity pay little attention to the … export entry simultaneously into several markets or export entry with several export products, and compare these to the entry …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … greater fixed export costs than low-productivity exporters. We also find that the substitution between fixed export costs and …

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted … exporting firms that retain their export status from year to year. …

unobserved firm productivity in the presence of (i) endogenous self-selection into export markets, (ii) dependence of … productivity evolution on the firm's past export experiences and (iii) potential technological heterogeneity in the production of … studying the nexus between firm productivity and export behavior. I showcase the proposed methodology by applying it to the …

Based on the theory of heterogeneous firms, participation in the international market leads to changes in performance … industry (2007-2014) to investigate the impacts of exporting on the productivity trajectory and intensity of factors. The … and the use of comparative advantages so that firms that start exporting have an immediate productivity growth of around 5 …

their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

control for unobserved firm fixed effects both in the selection and in the export equation, thus identifying the effect on …

economy, both in theory and in the data. We first summarize the key empirical facts that motivate the study of firms in trade …