TY  - JOUR
AU  - Harrigan,James
AU  - Ma,Xiangjun
AU  - Shlychkov,Victor
TI  - Export Prices of U.S. Firms
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17706
PY  - 2011
Y2  - December 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17706
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17706.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James Harrigan
Department of Economics
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400182
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182
Tel: 434-243-8354
Fax: 434-982-2904
E-Mail: harrigan@nber.org

Ma Xiangjun
Department of Economics
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400182
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182
E-Mail: xm2e@virginia.edu

Victor Shlychkov
Columbia University
E-Mail: vs2109@columbia.edu
AB  - 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 slightly higher prices to larger and richer markets, and 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.
ER  -