Betting On Exports: Trade and Endogenous Heterogeneity

Trade Barriers and Trade Flows with Product Heterogeneity: An Application to US Motion Picture Exports

We extend Melitz (2003) to allow for both global and bilateral fixed export costs. If global (bilateral) export costs dominate, the average sales ratio (import sales per product variety/domestic sales per variety), decreases (increases) in variable (fixed) trade barriers, due to adjustment along the intensive (extensive) margin of trade. Using novel data on bilateral US movie exports we find th...

Gravity Model of Trade and Russian Exports

Trade Policy Uncertainty and Exports: Evidence from China’s WTO Accession

To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China’s 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of heterogeneous firms, we provide empirical evidence that product-level tariff uncertainty reduction spurred a notable reallocation of export activities across ...

Exports, Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Quality Selection, Chinese Exports and Theories of Heterogeneous Firm Trade

Recent empirical and theoretical studies have identified product quality as an important determinant of bilateral trade flows. Yet relatively little is understood about the relationship between the characteristics of the export market and the quality of products. In this paper we examine this link using Chinese data. We find evidence that product unit values vary with standard gravity variables...