export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

small fraction who export, (iv) the small fraction of revenues from exporting among those that do, and (v) the much larger …

parties, and whether firms import as well as export. Firms that trade goods play an important role in the U.S., employing more … than a third of the U.S. workforce. We find that the most globally engaged U.S. firms, i.e. those that both export to and …

This paper investigates the determinants of countries' export performance looking in particular at the role of … decomposition we move on to an econometric analysis of the determinants of export performance. Results include the finding that poor … explaining Sub-Saharan Africa's poor export performance …

This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial …

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …