mechanism, but also to efficiency improvements following the export activity. We find heterogeneous post entry effects with …

States). It is shown that the NIS export structures are characterized by an exceptionally high degree of concentration and a …-intensive commodities). The NMS economies show a much more diversified export structure, there is more evidence for upgrading. There is … of the World. We discuss reasons for the differences in the degree of export concentration and patterns of trade …

sales, and we show that import is even more concentrated than export both within sectors and along the sector and country …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or …

- namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that only import. We show that two-way traders have a … export or import. The paper also looks at how the wages and the skill structure of the trading firms change with the country …

-level export performance in Asia's super exporter - The People's Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that … manager/chief executive officer also matter. The findings suggest that the PRC's remarkable success in the export of …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture … innovations and their impact on export propensity at the firm level through a double treatment approach. …