this sector have the ability to deliver cement either from domestic plants or from imports. Since cement is costly to … transport via land, the difference in marginal cost between local production and imports varies across local markets. The … marginal cost of imports is lower in areas with access to a sea port, decreasing the relative value of investing in local …

This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The … a U.S. bank’s share of the trade finance market in a country is, the larger should be the effect on exports to that …’s supply of letters of credit increases export growth, on average, by 1.5 percentage points. The effect is larger for exports …

I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm’s decision about serving foreign customers through exports …

“Northern” group’s exports to other EU15 countries (which have remained intact), the Southern countries’s exports to the other …

-off between exports and foreign direct investment as alternative modes of foreign market access. The paper derives comparative …

technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively …