Intermittent exporters exit and subsequently re-enter exporting. We model this process of exit and conditional re-entry using an extensive dataset of French manufacturing firms from 1997 to 2007. Smaller and less productive firms are more likely to exit exporting, and react more strongly to...

This paper examines the impact of protectionist policies on exports within global value chains (GVCs), using the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment. Leveraging UK customs data (2017–2020) and a shift-share identification strategy, we estimate an elasticity of exports with respect to...

As a result of the rapid growth of microeconometric studies of exporting firms, we now know quite a lot about the performance dynamics of firms that enter export markets. We know much less about what happens to performance when firms exit. We apply a difference-in-differences methodology based...