We review the literature that studies the dynamics of firms in foreign markets, at both the
intensive and extensive margins, and their aggregate implications. We first summarize a set …

Economic sanctions are a frequently used instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic
conflict, they aim to elicit a change in the policies of a foreign government by damaging their …

How do exporting firms react to sanctions? Specifically, which firms are willing—or capable—
to serve the market of a sanctioned country? We investigate this question for four sanctions …

Exporting firms often enter foreign markets that are similar to their previous export
destinations. We develop a dynamic model in which a firm's exports in a market may depend …

More than 80 percent of US imports occur in preexisting firm-to-firm relationships, and
disruptions to them can have large and long-lasting effects. Using US Census data, this …

How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the
question: lobbying by firms. Estimating a binary choice model of firm behavior, we find …

Exporting abroad is much harder than selling at home, and overcoming hurdles to exporting
takes time. Our goal is to identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their …

We use customs data for Irish firms to show that in successful episodes of export market
entry, there are statistically and economically significant post-entry dynamics of quantities …

We develop a dynamic model of international business-to-business transactions in which
sellers and buyers search for each other, with the probability of a match depending on both …

New exporters add and drop products with much greater frequency than old exporters. This
paper explains this behavior with a model of demand learning in which an exporter's …