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

international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

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 …