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 …

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

this theoretical and empirical puzzle by diagnosing a "pathological export boom" and a "bazaar effect". Excessively high … fraction of the labour intensive sectors and drive too much capital and labour into the capital intensive export sectors … upstream production activities which implies that export quantities grow too much in relation to value added contained in …

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …