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- Luis Castro & Ben Li & Keith Maskus & Yiqing Xie (2014): Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior
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, while those with higher productivity export more. ... A particularly novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face greater fixed export costs than low-productivity exporters. ... Finally, both larger fixed export costs and greater within-triplet productivity dispersion raise the export volume of the average exporter.
RePEc:boc:bocoec:855 Save to MyIDEAS - Shintaku, Koji (2015): Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs and the Division of Labor
We theoretically investigates that how firms decide to exports and the extent of the division of labor under heterogeneous fixed export costs. In the equilibrium, exporters and non-exporters coexists and all exporters behave as borderline firms. Exporters promote the division of labor more strongly than non-exporters. A decrease in trade costs raises the cut off export fixed costs. ... These links between the cut off fixed export costs and the division of labor of exporters and non-exporters bring a new insight for the research line of trade and heterogeneous fixed export costs
RePEc:pra:mprapa:64655 Save to MyIDEAS - Kim , Young Gui & Suh , Jeongmeen (2010): Determinants of Exports: Productivity or Fixed Export Costs
The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework to take several key determinants of exports into consideration and to propose an empirical model to identify which factors affect firms’ export performance, whether to start exporting (export extensity) and how much they will export (export intensity). Extending the Melitz (2003) model, in our theoretical part, we consider firm heterogeneity in two dimensions; fixed cost as well as productivity. As a result, when a firm with low productivity engages in exporting, there can also be a higher productive firm facing relatively high fixed cost. This allows us to resolve the difficulty in interpreting controversial empirical results, for example, whether productivity or firm size is a key determinant of export. Furthermore, in our empirical part, by using Korean firm-level data, we conclude that productivity plays an important role when a firm decides whether to start exporting, while fixed export costs variables are important determinants of fractions of outputs to be exported.
RePEc:ris:kiepwp:2010_006 Save to MyIDEAS - Luis Castro & Ben Li & Keith E. Maskus & Yiqing Xie (2014): Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior
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, while those with higher productivity export more. ... A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face greater fixed export costs than low-productivity exporters. ... Finally, both larger fixed export costs and greater within-triplet productivity dispersion raise the export volume of the average exporter.
RePEc:ces:ceswps:_4697 Save to MyIDEAS - Jørgensen Jan Guldager & Schröder Philipp J. H. (2006): Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs
This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed export costs that are heterogeneous across firms. ... We examine the effects of reciprocal changes in the tariff and the fixed export barrier on the number of firms, firm profits, tariff revenue and consumer welfare. ... Firm profits are falling in both tariff and fixed export cost barriers. Tariff revenue falls when fixed export costs increase whereas we have a Laffer curve effect for the tariff. Welfare falls when fixed export costs increase and increases for small tariffs and falls for large tariffs, i.e. there exists a welfare maximizing tariff.
RePEc:bpj:bejeap:v:contributions.5:y:2006:i:1:n:18 Save to MyIDEAS - Jørgensen Jan Guldager & Schröder Philipp J. H. (2006): Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs
This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed export costs that are heterogeneous across firms. ... We examine the effects of reciprocal changes in the tariff and the fixed export barrier on the number of firms, firm profits, tariff revenue and consumer welfare. ... Firm profits are falling in both tariff and fixed export cost barriers. Tariff revenue falls when fixed export costs increase whereas we have a Laffer curve effect for the tariff. Welfare falls when fixed export costs increase and increases for small tariffs and falls for large tariffs, i.e. there exists a welfare maximizing tariff.
RePEc:bpj:bejeap:v:5:y:2006:i:1:p:17:n:1038 Save to MyIDEAS - Luis Castro & Ben G. Li & Keith E. Maskus & Yiqing Xie (2016): Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior
This article provides a direct assessment of how fixed export costs (FECs) and productivity jointly determine firm‐level export behavior. ... Our empirical results show that firms facing higher estimated FECs are less likely to export, while those with higher productivity export more. ... We also find that the substitution between FECs and productivity in determining export decisions is weaker for firms with higher productivity. Finally, among firms that export, both larger FECs and greater within‐triplet productivity dispersion are associated with a greater export volume of the average exporter.
RePEc:wly:soecon:v:83:y:2016:i:1:p:300-320 Save to MyIDEAS - Jørgensen, Jan G. & Schröder, Philipp J.H. (2008): Fixed export cost heterogeneity, trade and welfare
Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. ... We develop a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model where firms are of two different marginal cost types and where fixed export costs are heterogeneous across firms. ... However, we find that with heterogeneous fixed export costs there exists a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes national and world welfare.
RePEc:eee:eecrev:v:52:y:2008:i:7:p:1256-1274 Save to MyIDEAS - Schröder, Philipp J.H. & Jørgensen, Jan G. (2007): Fixed Export Cost heterogeneity, Trade and Welfare
Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. ... We develop a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model where firms are of two different marginal costs types and where fixed export costs are heterogeneous across firms. ... However, we find that with heterogeneous fixed export costs there exists a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes national and world welfare.
RePEc:pra:mprapa:7397 Save to MyIDEAS - Roger Smeets & Harold Creusen (2011): Fixed export costs and multi-product firms
First, we uncover some salient components of fixed export costs, which play a crucial role in recent heterogeneous firms models of international trade. Second, we investigate whether the importance of these fixed export costs varies with the size of a firm’s export product portfolio. We find that a destination country’s institutional quality, such as the quality of regulation or the extent of corruption, form important impediments to a firm’s export decision, lowering the export probability to up to 10%-points. Moreover, relative to single-product firms, multi-product firms experience additional export probability decreases of around 2%-points.
RePEc:cpb:discus:188 Save to MyIDEAS