. Export diversification along the extensive margin is inextricable from the introduction of new export products. The authors … test the hypothesis that the threat of imitation inhibits the introduction of new exports - export discoveries - under the … within countries and industries rise with the growth of exports along the intensive margin (relative to the growth of non-export …

thought and permeates policy debates. This paper studies the microeconomic structure of export growth in Costa Rica, with … special emphasis on the extensive margin of trade, encompassing new exporting firms, new products, and new export markets, as … - more than 40 percent of firms exit export activities after one year - and this firm turnover is associated with a steady …

investment inflows, with inflows motivated by "horizontal" foreign direct investment associated with negligible changes in export … investment and exports, but on average foreign direct investment inflows tended to precede export surges within two year horizons …

. Export vulnerability depends first on the overall level of export exposure, measured as the share of exports in gross … gross domestic product using a gravity model of trade. Furthermore, export vulnerability is computed separately for … composition of their export basket. Although the results suggest differences in elasticity estimates across regions as well as …

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 … external demand (2008-2009). Export entrepreneurship is equated with the extensive margin of exports, namely the advent of new …

-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields an extra TFP growth that emerges since a firm's first year of exporting but … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. …

-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …