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

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

we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … terms of ability to expand the export basket of countries, a migrant with college education or above is about ten times more …

model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity constraints as additional variables for export … developments are relevant for short-run export dynamics particularly during more extreme stages of the business cycle. A …

export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution … countries ́first and second moment of the income distribution are important determinants of export prices. Controlling for …

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export … behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them … to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms facing higher fixed export costs are less likely to export …

Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …

uncover the determinants of the fickle and stable parts of firm export product mix, we use a cross section of firm …