Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U … government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are … apt to reenter, and plants are likely to export in consecutive years. However, we find that entry costs are significant …

This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …

manufacturing sector. This paper examines the source of this export boom and argues that the boom itself has been less remarkable … for the rate of growth of exports than for the striking increase in export intensity. This increase in export intensity … income are the dominant sources for the export increase, while productivity increases in U.S. plants play a relatively small …

-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export … data at the firm-product level, we find that the overwhelming majority of manufacturing firms export products that they do … not produce. Three quarters of the exported products and thirty percent of export value from Belgian manufacturers are in …