We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …

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 …

identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …

Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific export patterns over the period 1996 … previous year. These new exporters tend to be extremely small in terms of their overall contribution to export revenues, and … most do not continue exporting in the following year. Hence export sales are dominated by a small number of very large and …

manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export participation, with most selling only at home; (2) The number of firms …

data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows …