Recent research by
joint with
Xiangjun Ma and Victor Shlychkov
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 that highly productive and skill-intensive firms charge
higher prices, while capital-intensive firms charge lower prices. Second, U.S.
firms charge slightly higher prices to larger and richer markets, and
substantially higher prices to markets other than Canada and Mexico. Third, the
very large correlation between distance and export prices found by Baldwin and Harrigan
(2011) is largely due to a composition effect. Also available as a CES Working Paper.