Firms venturing abroad understand and rarely deny the significant role that information plays in export promotion. Nevertheless, the common misconception that can potentially threaten the business judgment of most exporters is that ‘the more information you know, the better it is for your firm’. Unbeknownst to them, it is the value (and not magnitude) of information that will contribute to the ...

An important feature of the data on new exporters is the evolution over time of their export size and exit rate. As the exporting age of firms increases, their average export volumes grow and the exit rate decreases. In particular, we observe cases of new exporters expanding slowly initially, and switching to high levels of exports after some time. I propose a quantitative model of active learn...

this comparative study investigates the iranian exporters and the u.s. importers perception of persian carpet branding strategy in the u.s. market. wong and merrilees conceptual model of international branding strategy (2007) is used as the base model. two separate models for these communities are extracted. results indicated that the two models are different together and with the base model du...

This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry. Using disaggregated U.S. import data, we create a new measure of trade costs over time and industrie...

According to the two empirical observations about U.S. imports, endowments-driven ‘within-product specialization’ has been increasing. From the data analysis, both these observations are shown extending to the imports of Brazil, India and Japan. However, in this paper, our finding is focused on that two factors driving the classical observations. First, China is the dominant low-wage exporter o...