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 …

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 … institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within …

, and industry officials everywhere generally anticipate the increasing competitiveness of India in high technology … activities. Using a structural framework, the author argues that Bangalore's (and India's) information technology (IT) industry … thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …

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 … institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within …

, this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although services firms have on average a much lower propensity to export …

market access: African firms are located further away from wealthier or denser potential export markets. A second occurs …

Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …