Why Some Firms Export

By Andrew B. Bernard, J. B. Jensen. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004

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Exploring the duration of EU imports (2011, positive): “This theory does not, however, seem to be consistent with very short trade durations (see Besedeš and Prusa, 2006a, for a discussion). The search-cost theory proposed by Rauch and Watson (2003) is another candidate, and it has been shown by Besedeš and Prusa (2006b) and Besedeš (2008) to have some e”
Do Financial Constraints Matter for Foreign Market Entry? A Firm-Level Examination (2008, positive): “The empirical strategy builds on the sunk cost model of exporting that was introduced by Roberts and Tybout (1997) and was widely applied (see e.g. Bernard and Wagner 2001, Bernard and Jensen 2004).”
Export Growth in Developing Countries: Market Entry and Bilateral Trade Flows (2002, background): “Roberts and Tybout (1997), Clerides, Lach, and Tybout (1998), Bernard and Jensen (2001), and Das, Roberts, and Tybout (2001), thoroughly explore the effects of sunk costs and learning-by-doing on the decision to export.”
Credit constraints and firm export: Microeconomic evidence from Italy☆ (2011, background): “There is ample evidence that exporters are more productive, bigger, more capital intensive and have better educated workers (see, e.g., Bernard and Jensen, 2004).”
Innovation and exporting: evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms (2010, methodology): “Moreover, as suggested by Bernard and Jensen (2004), product upgrading is an important component of firms’ strategy to penetrate foreign markets.”
Financial factors and the margins of trade: Evidence from cross-country firm-level data (2010, background): “(8)See among others Bernard and Jensen (2004), Bernard and Wagner (1998), Greenaway et al. (2007). (9)We define a firm as foreign when foreign participation in its capital is at least 49 percent; it is otherwise defined as domestic.”
Industrial Linkages and Export Spillovers from FDI (2007, positive): “As it has been shown empirically and theoretically (e.g.: Bernard and Jensen (2004); Melitz (2004); Bernard et al. (2003)) exporting involves sunk costs.”
Trade and Growth: Reconciling the Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Evidence (2005, positive): “…findings of these works was that exporting firms are more productive than firms that focus on the domestic market (e.g. Aw and Hwang, 1995; Bernard and Jensen, 1995, 1999a, 2004; Bernard and Wagner, 1997; Aw and Batra, 1998; Aw et al., 2000; Isgut, 2001; Mengistae and Pattillo, 2002;…”