We follow the recent strand of work linking innovation, productivity and exports. We test the hypothesis that a rise in … investment favors entrance in export markets and increases exports among previously exporting firms. We address causal links … training investments, which provide better controls for confounding factors. We find evidence that investments "cause" exports …

This article presents a study of exports of 131 countries for the years 1928-1936. There are two important results. One …, while world exports in current USD began to rebound from the collapse of trade during the Great Depression in 1933, world … exports in constant US gold dollars decreased annually from 1930 through 1934, and only began to increase in 1935. Two, the …

3.7 days and by 1.9 days for exports. Using extraneous estimates from customs-level transactions, this translates to a … reduction tariff Ad-Valorem Equivalent (AVE) in the range 3.5%-7% for imports and 8% extra growth of exports. The large …

these preferences in the year 2000, and of the extent to which LDC exports might be expected to increase should the … preferences be made comprehensive. Preferences in 2000 are shown to have led to an increase of $3.5 billion in LDC exports, while … a complete duty-free treatment could expand LDC exports by as much as $7.6 billion, 90 percent of which will be absorbed …

significantly affect exports of developing economies. The study also ascertain that transportation cost, distance, population of …