relationship between a country's export mix and its wage (GDP per capita). We show that this non-monotonicity permeates the 1980 … and (2) for the poorest third of countries, changes in export mix substantially over-predict growth in GDP per capita …

export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies … export entry. I estimate my model on standard firm-level data and find substantial additional productivity gains from … entering export markets …

We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct … outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciation have slower export growth, and … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with quot …

Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government … have developed in their absence. As a result, China has ended up with an export basket that is significantly more …

Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in Ramp;D and/or worker training. We focus on …. The firm's decisions to export and invest in Ramp;D and/or worker training are modeled with a bivariate probit model that …. The primary empirical findings are that, on average, firms that export but do not invest in Ramp;D and/or worker training …

, Kortum and Kramarz, in particular the higher sales in France of firms that choose to export to more destinations. The model … predicts that most firms do not export, and that a large proportion of firms that export in particular markets do so in small …

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 …

This paper shows that how firms export (directly or indirectly via intermediaries) matters. We develop and estimate a … differ by export mode. We find that demand and productivity evolve more favorably under direct exporting, though the fixed … the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … competition from demand shocks in export markets – and the induced product mix reallocations – induce productivity changes within …