This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export … behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them … to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms facing higher fixed export costs are less likely to export …

impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …

endogenous, the LNG export benefit can drop by as much as 20-50% relative to the case of exogenous cost …

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …