subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

developing countries' export growth. In view of the vague character of commitments negotiated in the General Agreement on Trade …

effects of labour standards on export performance and foreign direct investment flows. Overall, our empirical results suggest …

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

Survey. Overseas vertical and horizontal links are associated with an average increase in export intensity of 74 and 156 … role of Government in fostering overseas links despite their rarity, since they are effective export conduits. …

improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …

export their highest-sales products across multiple destinations. To account for these regularities, we develop a model of …

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value …