A large literature has documented an association between economic growth and export diversification. We study this … question in France between 1836 and 1938. The period witnessed the onset of modern economic growth and sharp changes in the … disaggregation. At the dawn of the first Globalization, France appears to have specialized along Ricardian lines, exporting a handful …

Large firms play a pivotal role in international trade, shaping the export patterns of countries. We propose and …-data with information on firm domestic and export sales across manufacturing industries. We find that granularity accounts for … about 20% of the variation in realized export intensity across sectors, and is more pronounced in the most export …

We map United States comparative advantage between 1980 and 1995, by trading partner and region, using Balassa's export …

The Ricardian model predicts that countries should produce and export relatively more in industries in which they are …

This paper highlights a tradeoff implied by a policy of export-led growth through currency undervaluation. While …

We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities … participation; (3) average sales in France rise very systematically with selling to less popular markets and to more markets. We … adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along … downward-sloping supplies. Heterogeneity in responses, rather than specialization, drives export variation across countries …