-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the … Heckman selection model to estimate the probability of exporting (export propensity) and the share of total sales that are … exported (export intensity) by Ecuadorian firms. They develop a baseline model with 12 independent variables divided into three …

Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means … to stimulate aggregate export growth. But the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export … from seven Latin American countries during the period 2006-2010. The results suggest that export promotion encourages …

Entering and successfully surviving in export markets is a costly process for firms. The process involves learning … exports. The results suggest spillovers from tourism into merchandise export performance and diversification and would imply … that there are gains from cooperation between tourism and export promotion agencies …

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 …

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 …