Dissecting trade
Subtitle: firms, industries, and export destinations
By: Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, Francis Kramarz.
Contributors: Kortum, Samuel.; Kramarz, Francis.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10344; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10344.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Manufacturing industries -- France.; Exports -- France.
Description: "We examine entry across 113 national markets in 16 different industries using a comprehensive data set of French manufacturing firms.  The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination.  Looking across all manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export participation, with most selling only at home; (2) The number of firms selling to multiple markets falls off with the number of destinations with an elasticity of -2.5; (3) Decomposing French exports to each destination into the size of the market and French share, variation in market share translates nearly completely into firm entry while about 60 percent of the variation in market size is reflected in firm entry.  Looking within each of 16 industries we find little variation in these patterns.  We propose that any successful model of trade and market structure must confront these facts"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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