ConnectAmericas, a free and purely informational online platform, and detailed firm-level export data of a developing country over a … long period. We find that participation in this platform is associated with a significantly larger increase in exports for …

across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data …

experienced substantial export growth in recent years, particularly to developed countries. The case studies first describe the … structure of the industries, then characterize the emergence of export pioneers and the subsequent process of diffusion. Finally … independently of his decision to export. Diffusion occurs across as well as within sectors, as pioneers knowledge is relevant to …

Recent studies have shown that developing countries might have significantly better export performance if they were … is virtually absent. In this paper, we aim at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing what determines export … of survival in export markets more than product diversification. …