In this paper we use network-analysis tools to identify communities in the web of exporters' destinations. Next we use our network-based community measure as predictor of additional countries chosen by firms expanding their export destination portfolio. We defend that our network-based community...

The literature shows that new exporters have small levels of exports relative to regular exporters upon entry, and, if they survive, they have very high export growth rates between the entry year and the next year. However, these empirical facts might be biased by the partial year effect: firms...

In this paper we use network-analysis tools to identify communities in the web of Bulgarian and Mexican exporters' destinations. We show that the network-based community measure is superior to extended gravity measures to predict the dynamics of firm's export-portfolio. This superiority stems...

Utilizamos herramientas de análisis de redes para identificar las comunidades de países de destino de los exportadores. Nuestra medida de comunidad está basada en el resultado de decisiones reales, captura la dependencia multilateral entre países en lugar de la dependencia bilateral, y se...

Incluye bibliografía ; Este trabajo utiliza datos individuales de transacciones comerciales para analizar las diferencias en los precios de exportación entre empresas y dentro de cada empresa con una muestra de compañías manufactureras españolas para el año 2014. La naturaleza...

Using data for all exporters, we show that it is a small group of firms that dominate exports in Spain. For example, in 2015 the top 200 firms were responsible for half of Spanish exports. This concentration has not changed substantially over the 1997-2015 period. The dominance of a few firms, a...

The literature shows that new exporters have small levels of exports relative to regular exporters upon entry, and, if they survive, they have very high export growth rates between the entry year and the next year. However, a recent paper by Bernard et al. (2014), using Peruvian data, has shown...