control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential … over other exporters into the Chinese market. While there is evidence of decreased export bundle concentration and movement …