-sum transfers are not necessarily superior to distortionary trade policy. We develop this argument in the context of food export …

that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for …. This suggests that the main challenge for low-income countries is to raise quality and productivity in their existing …This paper re-explores the relation between a country's level of wealth and the mix of products it exports. We argue …

Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … from a large internal inconsistency: they rely on an exogenous evolving productivity process. I show how recent proxy … estimators can accommodate endogenous productivity processes such as learning by exporting. I rely on my framework to discuss the …

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

firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were … unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with quot …

China's rapid growth. What matters for China's future growth is not the volume of exports, but whether China will continue …

This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the … effects of these investments on the firm's future total factor productivity. The empirical model consists of four equations … firm's future productivity trajectory while controlling for the potential selection bias introduced by endogenous firm exit …

productivity heterogeneity. In this model, a firm enters a market if it makes profits by reaching a single consumer there and pays …

has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a … extension of our approach to multivariate diffusions, in which one can permit innovations to productivity to be transmitted …

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 …