Keywords: Importing, exporting, trading costs, learning.

We study the micro dynamics of new exports from a country. The modern international trade workhorse models (e.g. Melitz, 2003) assume heterogeneous productivity and, implicitly, predict that the ex-post largest exporters ...

This paper explores the determinants of rm survival in export markets. Our theoretical framework includes a geometric Brownian motion for rm pro tability, market-speci c sunk and xed exporting costs that are common ...

The adequate way of neutralizing the Dutch disease is the imposition of a variable tax on the export of the commodity that originates the disease. If such tax is equivalent to the 'size' of the Dutch disease, it will shifts ...

This paper explores the determinants of firm survival in export markets. We build an exporter dynamics model where firms need to pay market-specific sunk and fixed costs to operate abroad and where firm export profitability ...

The first chapter of this dissertation develops a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous exporters and heterogeneous importrs. This theory is guided by new findings drawn from a matched ...

The objective of this study is to analyze in two essays the effects of tangible and intangible costs on disaggregated exports from Brazil - and its trading partners, because according to the literature - when these costs ...

This paper establishes a link between the income level of the destination countries and the level of average wages in the exporting country across the world economy. We use cross-country panel data to set up an instrumental ...