information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

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

interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the …

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

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

evidence on the role that migrants play explaining export performance in global markets after returning to their home country …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

export experience in a market are more likely to source service inputs from there. We rationalize this fact in a model where … firms are initially uncertain about how successful they are as exporters, but learn their export profitability as they keep … they become sufficiently confident about their export prospects, i.e., once they acquire enough export experience. More …

their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

The exceptional export performance of foreign-owned firms is a well-established stylized fact, but the underlying …