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 …

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 …

information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A … developing countries, where they appear to be geographically more concentrated. The exception is China and to some extent Hong …

Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … small global share of privately-held external assets and liabilities (with the exception of China’s FDI liabilities), these … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China …

subsidies on firms’ export performance. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies stimulate export activity …