Title: An Anatomy of International Trade

Abstract: We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities stand out: (1) the number of French firms selling to a market, relative to French market share, increases systematically with market size; (2) sales distributions are very similar across markets of very different size and extent of French participation; (3) average sales in France rise very systematically with selling to less popular markets and to more markets...

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Publication ID: 134

Category Description: International Trade and related Economic Statistics

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: NBER

Year: 2008

Month: December

Sub Title: Evidence from French firms

Author 1: Jonathan Eaton

Author 2: Samuel Kortu

Author 3:Francis Kramarz

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w14610.pdf

Tags: export destinations , export intensity , firm characteristics , market entry , producer heterogeneity , sales distributions , simulated moments ,

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