Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer … effects of foreign acquisitions on export market entry and technology take-off and evaluate whether the level of foreign …

the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export … (and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports …

skillbiased technological change induced through imports of technology-intensive capital goods or export activity may provide an …

differences in export and import behaviour. We also perform an event study of a concrete policy change in a destination market …

that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …. -- Innovation ; FDI ; state owned enterprises ; spillovers ; competition ; China …