New data on export insurance and guarantees suggest that publicly backed export credit agencies have played a role to … prevent a complete drying up of trade finance markets during the current financial crisis. Given that export credit agencies … such specialized financial institutions. It concludes that developing countries should consider export credit agencies only …

This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers'screening efforts. Leveraging a …

need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

Using highly disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports in Peru over the 2000 …?2012 period, this paper explores the relationship between imports of intermediate inputs and firm export performance. The paper …, faster export growth, greater diversification of export markets, and higher quality exports (as measured by relative unit …

the role of international price levels as well as export volumes in explaining this growth. The second one is whether Peru … increase in international mineral prices has exerted a significant impact in recent years, much of the growth of Peru's export …The rapid growth of exports since the early 1990s is a central feature in the extraordinary rise of Peru's economy in …

domestic exporters. The authors use data on the nontraditional agriculture sector in Peru, which grew seven-fold from 1994 to … 2007. They find tremendous firm entry and exit in the export sector, with exits more likely after one year and among firms … export and to develop new export products and markets when there are sunk costs of discovery and uncertainty about …