heterogeneity and export incentive through credit market imperfection over the life cycle of a firm remains largely unaddressed in … the literature. This paper studies the dynamics of wealth heterogeneity and export incentive of credit rationed firms … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity …

that the imposition of high labour standards upon them is equally unfair since it will erode their competitiveness, the … 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 …

export their highest-sales products across multiple destinations. To account for these regularities, we develop a model of …

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 …

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value …

key firm-level outcomes: export status and size. …

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 …