. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

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 …

Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades …, price levels (in PPP), and real exchange rates in relative terms. Due to data restrictions, China's relative exports (to the … period of eleven years. Panel and pooled estimation techniques (SUR-estimation, panel Feasible Generalized Least Squares …

Over the last millennium, the clan and the corporation have been the loci of cooperation in China and Europe …

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other … workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that 'Chinese …

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model …