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

individually larger, with export value extremely concentrated in a few firms. Firm churning rates are disproportionately low and … survival rates of entrants are high. These findings reflect exceptionally high entry costs of export, which are the result of … anti-export bias and import substitution policies that sought unsuccessfully to develop the local industry. The paper shows …

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 …

This paper studies how a positive export shock -- the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares … predictions from long-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, this paper finds that the export …

integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …