effect of export fluctuations (driven by changes in foreign demand) seems to be attenuated by labor market rigidities, such …

external demand (2008-2009). Export entrepreneurship is equated with the extensive margin of exports, namely the advent of new …The authors use a new dataset on export transactions for a large set of Latin American and Caribbean and comparator … countries to assess the extent of "export entrepreneurship" during periods of fast export growth (2005-2007) and depressed …

inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus … are important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also suggests that the incidence of exports within industries … underlying industry and country characteristics that explain skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are …

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 …

in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. This paper subjects this theoretical prediction … to a reality check drawing upon the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 … developing countries to all destinations. Around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is shown to be …

in developing countries. Descriptive statistics confirm higher export participation (but not intensity) for firms in core … and agglomeration factors have a significant impact on export participation. Specifically, customs clearance and … electricity quality matter for export participation for manufacturing firms. Although localization economies and export spillovers …

The authors estimate the impact of aggregate indicators of "soft" and "hard" infrastructure on the export performance … trade facilitation reforms do improve the export performance of developing countries. This is particularly true with … evidence that the marginal effect of infrastructure improvement on exports appears to be decreasing in per capita income. In …

-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … negative relationship between the concentration of innovation portfolios and performance: countries that are the most … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path …