Exports serve as an engine of economic growth and can potentially help countries come out of poverty and unemployment …. However, as the production process is increasingly getting fragmented globally, greater exports no longer imply higher … domestic production, as imports of intermediate products used as inputs in exports also increase. Global Value Chains (GVCs …

to expand output and exploit all scale economies that the production technology allows. With access to finance problems …

documents that they have to obtain, fill in, and submit for their exports to be authorized. In this paper, we estimate the … associated with both an expansion in the number of exporting firms and increased firms' exports along the shipment extensive …

affect exports and imports and how domestic labour value added shapes this relationship. We find that higher labour taxes … reduce exports but that the effect depends to a large extent on the share of domestic labour value added, which differs by …

reduce exports and imports only when the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) is high. The effect is present primarily in …

find business partners. Online platforms can reduce these search costs and thereby favor firms exports. We examine whether … resulted in increased firms exports, particularly from those that had no digital presence, of differentiated products, and to …