sources. The authors use micro panel data to estimate a dynamic discrete - choice model of participation in export markets, a … explaining export patterns. The econometric results reject the hypothesis that sunk costs are zero. The results, which control … for both observed and unobserved sources of plant heterogeneity, indicate that prior export market experience has a …

relevant positive relationship between the costs of imported inputs and the export of the final goods. We use a simple Cournot … and the export of the final goods. We further show that a lower cost of imported inputs may reduce the consumer surplus …