As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are … continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model … of export supply that characterizes these two decisions and estimate the model using plant-level panel data on Colombian …

I present a dynamic fixed cost model of export participation extended by a capital theoretic concept of the customer … in the sample saw a strong increase in export activity which provides a suitable case study for the predictive power of … able to reconcile a strong export reaction to trade liberalizations with a low elasticity of aggregate exports to exchange …