Spain's export performance strengthened after the global financial crisis, and exports now represent more than a third …

LAC exports. China's retreat from certain markets, due to the ongoing rebalancing process, could open new opportunities … effect on LAC's GDP and exports in the long run, but this effect is small and uneven across countries, leading to winners and …

rates limited access to domestic credit and hence limited the supply of exports; and that “competitive depreciation …” neutralized the effects on demand for exports. This paper considers the plausibility of these two mechanisms using a new monthly … database on exports of selected industries. We find evidence that “competitive depreciation” did play a fundamental role in the …

. 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 …

on exports is mainly noticeable in countries with a high-energy dependency ratio and countries where access to an …

. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50 percent of variation in exports is along the extensive margin-a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50 percent on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …