export to foreign markets directly, smaller firms typically export via intermediaries (indirect exporting). I document a set …

This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing … in domestic gasoline or diesel price adversely affects real non-fuel export growth, but only in the short run as the … on exports is mainly noticeable in countries with a high-energy dependency ratio and countries where access to an …

Export structure is less diversified in low-income countries (LICs) and especially small states that face resource … constraints and small economic size. This paper explores the potential linkages between export structure and economic growth and … its volatility in LICs and small states, using a range of indices of export concentration differing in the coverage of …

. 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 …

diversification of the export sector. The latter, in turn, has been influenced by capital accumulation and economic growth. The growth … consistent with empirical regularities observed in the exports-economic growth linkages. The paper also derives a formula for the … export expansion and its interaction with saving and investment …

This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of …