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. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of FECs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms fac...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 300 - 321 |
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