This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the … activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of the business environment and that of …' export behavior …

This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services …

This study examines whether foreign direct investment inflows facilitate upgrading of export quality in host countries … affiliates in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. This relationship is present irrespective of export destination or …

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

: (1) earning income (export goods in which Russia has traditionally had a comparative advantage); (2) diversification and …

46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …

to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The … database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped …

of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and … whether developing countries are different. It confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for export growth. The paper …