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 …

varying degrees of labor protection, I show that countries with more protective labor laws export relatively more in firm …

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 …