Abstract
Recent theoretical models of entry predict that, in the presence of sunk costs, current market participation is affected by prior experience. This paper quantifies the effect of prior exporting experience on the decisions of Colombian manufacturing plants to participate in foreign markets. It develops a dynamic discrete-choice model of exporting behavior that separates the roles of profit heterogeneity and sunk entry costs in explaining plants' exporting status. Sunk costs are found to be significant, and prior export experience is shown to increase the probability of exporting by as much as 60 percentage points. (JEL F10, L10, C25).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 545-564 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | American Economic Review |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Sep 1997 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Economics and Econometrics