Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: May, 2007, Volume 75, Issue 3

Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00769.x
p. 837-873

Sanghamitra Das, Mark J. Roberts, James R. Tybout

As the exchange rate, foreign demand, and production costs evolve, domestic producers are continually faced with two choices: 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. The model embodies plant‐level heterogeneity in export profits, uncertainty about the determinants of future profits, and market entry costs for new exporters. Using a Bayesian Monte Carlo Markov chain estimator, we fit this model to plant‐level panel data on three Colombian manufacturing industries. We obtain profit function and sunk entry cost coefficients, and use them to simulate export responses to shifts in the exchange‐rate process and several types of export subsidies. In each case, the aggregate export response depends on entry costs, expectations about the exchange rate process, prior exporting experience, and producer heterogeneity. Export revenue subsidies are far more effective at stimulating exports than policies that subsidize entry costs.


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Supplement to "Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics"

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Supplement to "Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics"

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Supplement to "Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics"

This file contains supplementary results.

Supplement to "Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics"

This file contains data sets and programs. See readme.pdf file for full description.