This firm-level study investigates the importance of innovation as a determinant of firm productivity and how firm … productivity could impact firm export survival. This is the first integration of the innovation approach, productivity approach …, innovation output, firm productivity, and export survival. The four equations' findings suggest that the technology level of the …

finding of the multisector analysis is the conclusion that not diversification per se but rather a diversification with the … output. In the economies with a low level of economic diversification, commodity bonanza leads however to the shrinkage of …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … particular, by focusing on the diversification of imports, we add a missing piece to already analysed export trends. We use …), they follow a similar path of evolution in the development process. Progressing relative diversification (despecialisation …

There has been renewed emphasis in the recent trade policy debate on the potential positive impact of diversification … 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 …