Export prices of US firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Harrigan, James; Ma, Xiangjun; Shlychkov, Victor
• 署名单位: University of Virginia; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of International Business & Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.04.007
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 100-111
• 关键词: Exporters; Firm level data; pricing; heterogeneous firms

摘要

Using confidential firm-level data from the United States in 2002, we show that exporting firms charge prices for narrowly defined goods that differ substantially with the characteristics of firms and export markets. We control for selection into export markets using a three-stage estimator. We have three main results. First, we find that highly productive and skill-intensive firms charge higher prices, while capital-intensive firms charge lower prices. Second, U.S. firms charge substantially higher prices to markets other than Canada and Mexico. Third, the correlation between distance and product-level export prices is largely due to a composition effect. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.