. 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 … non-export gross domestic product) but the magnitude of this partial correlation increases with domestic barriers to entry …

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 …

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 …

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

of natural resource abundance, export concentration and intra-industry trade. We test the robustness of these … growth, especially natural resource abundance and export concentration. In contrast to much of the recent literature, natural … resource abundance appears to have a positive effect on growth whereas export concentration hampers growth …

find out whether a new product can be exported profitably, thus implying that the threat of entry can reduce export … activities. This article presents data suggesting that export diversification and export discoveries are correlated over the … course of development, and it provides an empirical test of market failures that might deter export discoveries. The findings …

-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. …

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 …

. 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 …