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

How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We … address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and … by the extensive margin. Third, the above effects are not exclusive to industries directly exposed to export shocks but …

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 …

differ from those in an export-only model. Calibrating our model to rich firm-level data from France and Norway, our main …

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 …