the number of neighbors currently selling there, the level and heterogeneity of their export sales, and the firm\'s own … prior knowledge about the market. A positive signal about demand inferred from neighbors\' export performance raises the …

whether export activities in the neighborhood reveal information about export profitability and thus enhance new exporters … exporters’ first-year sales and probability of survival are both higher in cities where there are more existing export … activities in the same market (industry or destination country). Export activities in other markets do not generate any positive …

Using detailed product-level export data for China and a variant of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model that includes … outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which … specify who owns and controls the imported components for export processing. We find that in the regime that Chinese plants …

This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary …. Estimates suggest that beneficiaries initially saw both faster export growth and greater diversification across destinations and … products. However, three years after the intervention, beneficiaries’ growth rates and export levels were not significantly …