This paper analyses the patterns of export productivity and trade specialization profiles in the China, Brazil, India … and South Africa, and in other regional groupings. In doing so, the investigation calculates a time varying export … productivity measure using highly disaggregated product categories. The findings indicate that export productivity is mainly …

Chinese competition in their export markets. The paper develops a new index to measure the extent of the competitive threat …

local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used … scope. Using a structural model, we estimate that the simultaneous export and import in a given country reduces export and …

of other developing countries. The paper provides a critique of the standard measures of export similarity which have … change in the competitive threat over time. – China ; competition ; export similarity ; exports ; trade …

By exploring the export performances and specialization patterns of China and India, we assess their trade …, Singapore and Thailand, implying opportunities for trade expansion; and finally (vi) the export structure of China is changing …