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 …

export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …-in-differences matching estimator. The findings show that, over a six-year period, the difference in productivity growth between export … international markets have largely been understated in the export-productivity empirical literature. This difference in productivity …

heterogeneity of total factor productivity (TFP) and export-market orientation, refining some previously known facts and unveiling … recover TFP. We then document that the most productive exporters are those that export (1) a higher share of their total …

non-exporters. However, selecting high export potentials is difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to … characterize and identify these (high) export potentials. According to the Melitz (2003) model, potential exporters have to be … productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export …