imports forces firms to improve the quality of their products. The econometric analysis relies on a rich dataset of Chilean … costs are used as an exogenous measure of import competition. The authors find a positive and robust effect of import … that increased import competition from less advanced economies is the major cause for the positive impact on quality …

, transparent, and participatory decisions on the application of the import restrictions they allow. The proposed special … agricultural safeguard expands by arithmetic formula the bounds within which a Member may impose a new import restriction. Analysis … useful, the special agricultural safeguard should do more than provide formulas for import restrictions. It should provide …

-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 …

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