This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services …

This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the … activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of the business environment and that of …' export behavior …

46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …

of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and … whether developing countries are different. It confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for export growth. The paper …