. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …Using annual data for the period 1992 - 2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners … fixed effect vector decomposition (FEVD) technique. The findings confirm the significant change in China's trading structure …

structural changes, which primarily took place in many OECD countries in the mid 1980s. We argue that neither the rise of China …

support for both hypotheses, thus showing for the first time that there is an empirical connection between export performance …

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 …

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 …

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations with China (PNTR). But there was also an offsetting … declined in the most exposed industries because of the export destruction effect. On aggregate, the US and China both gain from …How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can …