products or processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of … dress up for starting to export. In a sequence, exporting may enable firms to introduce further innovations. These positive …

Not all firms export every period. Firms enter and exit foreign markets. Previous research has suggested that these … export participation decisions have significant aggregate implications. In particular, it has been argued that these export … exporter dynamics in an otherwise standard equilibrium open economy business cycle model. The authors show that the export …

state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001 … export dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made …

Firms display remarkable persistence in exporting and importing status. However, export and import status do not … overlap perfectly, as some exporters do not import while some importers do not export. Motivated by these facts, I develop a … dynamic discrete choice model of a firm’s decision to import and export. A firm needs to pay either sunk costs to initiate an …