Working Paper: NBER ID: w10344
Authors: Jonathan Eaton; Samuel Kortum; Francis Kramarz
Abstract: We examine entry across 113 national markets in 16 different industries using a comprehensive data set of French manufacturing firms. The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination. Looking across all manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export participation, with most selling only at home; (2) The number of firms selling to multiple markets falls off with the number of destinations with an elasticity of -2.5; (3) Decomposing French exports to each destination into the size of the market and French share, variation in market share translates nearly completely into firm entry while about 60 percent of the variation in market size is reflected in firm entry. Looking within each of 16 industries we find little variation in these patterns. We propose that any successful model of trade and market structure must confront these facts.
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JEL Codes: F1; L1; L2
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| firm size/productivity (L25) | export participation (F10) |
| number of markets (G15) | number of exporting firms (F10) |
| number of firms selling to multiple markets (L19) | market share (L17) |
| market size (L25) | number of firms entering market (L11) |