firms' 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 decisions. It can also … explain stylized facts that seem difficult to reconcile with the implications of the founding models: 1) flows of export …

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 …

show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of … dispersion, the distribution of export intensity has two modes in the boundaries of the support and their height is determined by … export intensity. Our results show that when the conditions for the existence of twin peaks are met, differences in relative …