has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a …

added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade … the distributions of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) in terms of gross exports and value added for 40 countries. A … Systematic comparison of these distributions shows that the distributions of RCA calculated with gross exports and value added …

We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of … exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with …

exports from big and more productive exporters. …

. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is … large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports …

in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. We subject this theoretical prediction to a … reality check drawing upon the World Banks Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 developing … countries to all destinations. We find that around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is along the …