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 …

of partial US sanctions decreases trade by 16 percent. When complete export and import sanctions are implemented, US …, respectively. In contrast, the application of partial export and import sanctions leads to a decrease in trade by 13 percent and 17 …

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

and empirically the influence of variable and fixed export costs in explaining the likely heterogeneity in the trade … motivate theoretically the roles of variable trade costs and of fixed and variable export costs, respectively, for explaining … variables, capturing variable and fixed export costs. Fourth, we show that such estimated heterogeneous effects can predict 83 …