modes. China's WTO accession leads to an export deregulation, which empowers private domestic firms with low registered … capital to export directly. This quasi-natural experiment encourages firms switching from indirect to direct exporting, and … pronounced in the post-WTO accession period. The time-varying heterogeneous impacts suggest an economic loss caused by the export …

depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

Export cartels are exempted from the competition (antitrust) laws of most countries, but this exemption has been … literature on the subject, this paper reviews the treatment of export cartels in various jurisdictions. It goes on to compile the … trade. A detailed case study then recounts the efficiency claims made by one U.S. export association which ran foul of …

LDCs for export diversification. But GVC participation cannot materialize without a proper trade environment. Some of the …

mainly through a reduction in the number of customers in export markets. …

) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis … a positive effect on LDCs' export performance on primary products; the average effect on manufacturing exports has been … statistically nil. In the short and medium term, this decision has exerted a positive effect on LDCs' merchandise export performance …

of the product composition on export expansion. However, the standard trade theory predicts that export success depends … on pursuing comparative advantages rather than policy-induced export diversification. This paper studies the relationship … between product diversification and export performance of developing Asian economies using panel data from 1976 to 2017. The …

products (extensive margin), and the demise of existing products (failure margin) to the export expansion of developing Asian … level, we find that product deepening plays a crucial role in export success for total merchandise and its subcategories …