Title: Exports, Borders, Distance and Plant Size

Abstract: The fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much work in the international trade literature. We examine this fact using Census micro data on plant shipments from the Commodity Flow Survey. We show the fact is not entirely an international trade phenomenon; part of it can be accounted for by the effect of distance, distinct from any border effect...

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Publication ID: 127

Category Description: International Trade and related Economic Statistics

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: NBER

Year: 2010

Month: June

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Author 1: Thomas J. Holmes

Author 2: John J. Stevens

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16046.pdf

Tags: border effects , Commodity Flow Survey , firm size , international trade , large plant shipments , small plant shipments ,

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