Export prices of U.S. firms

James Harrigan, Xiangjun Ma and Victor Shlychkov

Journal of International Economics, 2015, vol. 97, issue 1, 100-111

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Exporters; Firm level data; Pricing; Heterogeneous firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F10 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Working Paper: Export Prices of U.S. Firms (2011)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2015.04.007

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