processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of Spanish firms … starting to export. In a sequence, exporting may enable firms to introduce further innovations. These positive learning effects …

In this paper we examine the reasons behind the remarkable export performance of transition economies in the last two … decades. Following Redding and Venables (2004, 2004a) and Fugazza (2004), we decompose export performance into the gains due … to the advantageous access to foreign markets and export gains on the side of the internal supply capacity. We find that …