This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the … firms' exports, on average, by 3.6 percent. In line with models of trade with heterogeneous firms and mark-ups, the trade …

technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively … transfer sustains these basic messages. -- Intellectual property rights ; technology transfer ; 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 …

whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the … GSP expansion increased African exports of other eligible products. While the marginal impacts on African apparel exports …

manipulation. We show that certification of private information by a third party may not always be in the interest of the principal … if this certification raises the specter of collusion. …

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost … discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

regularity conditions and assuming a Cobb Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long run … money balances, inflation, real exchange rate, oil exports, and foreign real output, the paper finds clear evidence for two … acting as a proxy for the (missing) market interest rate. Real output in the long run is shaped by oil exports through their …