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 …

-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 …