test the hypothesis that the threat of imitation inhibits the introduction of new exports - export discoveries - under the … assumption that the intensive and extensive margins of exports are correlated within broad country-industry groups. Econometric … within countries and industries rise with the growth of exports along the intensive margin (relative to the growth of non …

The literature on the correlation between exports and economic development runs deep into the history of economic … small firms to enter exporting activities or to grow their exports, appear to be important sources of export growth. In fact …

exports is surprisingly ambiguous. This note explores for the first time the potential role of foreign direct investment as an …-currency value of domestic assets. If so, the response of exports will depend to some extent on the nature of such foreign direct … inflows and exports to explore the effects of large devaluations (defined as the largest observed quarterly real effective …

methodology to measure the vulnerability of a country's exports to fluctuations in the economic activity of foreign markets …. Export vulnerability depends first on the overall level of export exposure, measured as the share of exports in gross … domestic product, and second on the sensitivity of exports to fluctuations in foreign gross domestic product. The authors …

external demand (2008-2009). Export entrepreneurship is equated with the extensive margin of exports, namely the advent of new …) the low growth of exports during the global recession of 2008-2009 in Latin America and the Caribbean was due to lower … growth in exports of incumbent firms' pre-existing products and destinations, while new products and destinations tended to …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative … control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self …