This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. The authors identify … two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First … advertising, activities that are also intensive in skilled labor (Matsuyama, 2007). Both theories suggest a skill-bias in export …

-product dynamics observed during an export boom. This exercise is possible thanks to a unique firm-product level dataset covering about … driver of firms' decision to introduce or drop export products. Third, new exporters tend to "start small" in terms of both … stimulating Mexican exports, the growth in volume of pre-existing products was the main driver of the export boom. Finally, the …

-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …

thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs …