Arbeitspapier

How exporters grow

We document how export quantities and prices evolve after entry to a market. Controlling for marginal cost, and taking account of selection on idiosyncratic demand, there are economically and statistically significant dynamics of quantities, but no dynamics of prices. To match these facts, we estimate a model where firms invest in customer base through non-price actions (e.g. marketing and advertising), and learn gradually about their idiosyncratic demand. The model matches quantity, price and exit moments. Parameter estimates imply costs of adjusting investment in customer base, and slow learning about demand, both of which generate sluggish responses of sales to shocks.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP17/02

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fitzgerald, Doireann
Haller, Stefanie
Yedid-Levi, Yaniv
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics
(wo)
Dublin
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fitzgerald, Doireann
  • Haller, Stefanie
  • Yedid-Levi, Yaniv
  • University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2017

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