level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …

This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …

-intensive industries, which will confront export displacement in third (EU) markets and some foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion … diversion, however, since alternative locations in the CEECs provide lower cost export bases and a significantly better access …

with heterogeneous firms. We show that increased TPU reduces investment in export entry and technology upgrading, which in … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … relationship between unit values and market size. We propose two possible explanations: first, firms may export different quality …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …