Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics
市场进入成本、生产者异质性与出口动态
As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are continually faced with two issues: whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. we develop a dynamic structural model of export supply that characterizes these two decisions and estimate the model using plant-level panel data on Colombian chemical producers. The model embodies uncertainty, plant-level heterogeneity in export profits, and sunk…