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 …

. Should governments step in and can their assistance be effective? This paper studies the case of public export credit … guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of … presence of credit constraints and provide an argument justifying the observed government intervention. -- public export credit …

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … intertemporal selection effects. -- export ; FDI ; uncertain productivity growth ; real option approach …