surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones. Measurement error … of this instability: Only 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in comparative advantage … (source-by-product factors), while another 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in bilateral …

the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …

controversy continues today, even as the world is experiencing an unprecedented period of trade liberalization, and in spite of …

We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A …

We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export … export markets but shortly exit when it learns its per- period fixed costs. We apply this insight to disaggregated export … data and confirm that indeed most export relationships are very short lived. We then show that the survival issue is a …

productivity exceeds that of Non-FIEs by around 9:1. Their production is more heavily for export rather than the domestic market … because FIEs provide access to both distribution systems abroad and product design for export markets. Our decomposition … sustainability of both China' export and overall economic growth may be questionable if inward FDI plateaus in the future …

We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct … around the world. Consistent with the theory we find that the importance of DFI relative to exports grows with population … open to U.S. exports than any region in the world except East Asia …