The paper estimates the effect of product standards on firms? export decisions using two novel datasets. The first … exporting as well as their export values and quantities. The relative restrictiveness of standards also deters exporting firms … effect of product standards on firms? export decisions. Smaller exporters are more negatively affected in their market entry …

export destinations and find that exporting to richer countries leads firms to charge more for outputs and pay higher prices …

entry and the following year. This paper examines the implications of partial year effects using Peruvian export data. The … literatures on firm export dynamics. Correcting the partial year effect eliminates unusually high growth rates in the first year … of exporting, raises initial export levels, and shifts 10 percent of market entrants from below to above the median size …

categories, firms with longer spells of activity in export destinations tend to ship larger quantities at similar prices, thus … obtaining larger export revenue; (2) older exporters tend to import more expensive inputs; and (3) revenue growth within …. Counterfactual simulations reveal that minimum quality standards on exports reduce welfare by lowering entry in export markets and …

indicate that standards have a posi-tive effect on China's export performance. Standards signal to customers that products meet …

Country export quality (measured by unit values) is correlated with income level suggesting that studying quality … the export quality (unit value) dynamics of goods exported to the United States over the 1990-2000 period. In addition to … Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007) that what countries export does matter for growth. However, it is partly driven by a higher …

relationship between the export performance of firms and how their products relate to local comparative advantage. The key … products seems to yield export-enhancing spillovers. However, this positive effect of product relatedness on export performance …

In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive … begin exporting new varieties to new markets is shown to respond positively to the export activity of neighboring foreign … sizable. The marginal impact of product-country-specific foreign export spillovers is five times as large as the effect of a …

margin (exporter size) contribute more to export growth than expansions along the extensive margin (number of exporters …-foundations of export growth, by providing new insights about exporter characteristics and dynamics …

exports from the top 1 percent of firms in a country -- export superstars. In contrast, the sectoral distribution of exports … across sectors is very similar across countries. This paper also finds that current export superstars typically entered the … export market relatively large, reached the top 1 percent after less than three years of exporting, and account for more than …