export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found … exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm …

investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In …

associated with the types of firms which participate in the export market. …

determinant of economic growth. Understanding how South African firms learn to export more sophisticated products is, therefore …, we argue that foreign direct investment can stimulate export upgrading in manufacturing firms. We find that the level of …) provide firm-level evidence of export upgrading induced by foreign direct investment in Africa, (ii) employ the fitness …

rate-export relationship in South Africa over the period 2010 to 2014. Our empirical results show that firms that are … larger, have higher export shares in destination markets, and import are more likely to raise the domestic currency price of … their exports in response to a depreciation, and consequently display weaker export quantity responses. The exchange rate …

typically associated with better export performance at the firm level due to productivity enhancements and new products. However … demand for labour. This paper aims to isolate the impact of innovation on export performance to understand the direct and …

export and that export participation is highly persistent. There is also evidence supporting the learning by exporting … hypothesis and the results suggest a significant export premium of between 15 and 24 per cent, controlling for differences in …. We conclude that the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute could play an important role in overcoming this information …

of Moments. Our results indicate evidence both that the most efficient firms self-select for entry into the export market … and that learning has an impact on the export market. From a policy perspective, this evidence of learning by exporting …

Tunisian manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2006. In particular, we examine whether more productive firms self-select into export … exporting firms from others. The results suggest that fully exporting firms self-select more often into export markets and … for learning by exporting. Moreover, the scope for learning might also be influenced by export destination, as in the case …

productivity improvements due to entry into export markets suggesting that the productivity gains are associated with the removal …