. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive margin --- a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50% on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …

. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …

Chinese electronics exports. Our key finding is that "missing pioneers" are a low-probability event for large countries, but …

effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to … incumbent vote shares, and increasing exports correlate with increasing vote shares for incumbents. These effects are large and …

variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which …

This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework, initially proposed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) for … a country's aggregate exports, to one at the sector, bilateral, and bilateral-sector levels. Such a generalization … requires a conceptual distinction between value added exports by forward and backward industrial linkages, and a non …