Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such het...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Qian
Other Authors: Gopinath, Munisamy
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1957/34359