Using panel data regressions, this paper analyzes the effect of imperfections in the formal export credit and insurance … with respect to export credit and insurance is novel in the literature. I employ Berne Union data on export credit … novelty, I extend the data specification of Auboin and Engemann (2014) to the interaction of export diversification and …

affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substitutable. Export upgrading entails export … diversification (including overall export diversification, as well as diversification at the intensive and at the extensive margins …) and export quality improvement. The empirical analysis shows that total AfT flows have a strong positive impact on export …