This paper adopts panel data methodologies to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on export growth and … import growth across 28 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1981 to 2010. We find that trade liberalisation increases the … that the trade balance in the region deteriorated in the post-liberalisation era. We also find that trade liberalisation …

productivity, but has been deficient in poor developing countries. A particular concern for poor countries has been relatively low …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between export performance and economic growth in Russian regions. We … that Russian regions would experience higher economic growth if they were able to improve their export performance at the … propose a methodology for decomposition of export growth into intensive and extensive margins and distinguish between product …

slowdown is likely to persist for some time. This paper investigates the impact of this phenomenon on export performance, with … conclude that, while a reduction in productivity growth is always associated with a decrease in export competitiveness, for …Productivity growth has slowed in most Western countries, a reality well known in the economic literature, and the …

This paper estimates a dynamic general equilibrium model of entry, exit, and endogenous productivity growth …. Productivity is endogenous both at the industry level (firms enter and exit) and at the firm level (firms invest in productivity …-enhancing activities). The focus of the paper is on two activities that make productivity-enhancing investments more attractive, namely …

This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector …, we find that increased competition in the Peruvian exporting firms main export markets had a negative effect on …

of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance … responses to policies, influences firms growth. Our results show, first, a typical trade off generally appearing for the three … the estimated coefficients is not large. Trade offs are significant for two emission indicators out of two, but quite …

Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution …

Export boosting is a policy agenda in developed and developing countries. Previous work has found that a small number … sectors. HGXs are located in higher export active regions, neighboring advanced markets. HGXs represent only 0.5% of all firms … highest number of new products, and the concentration of HGXs' main export products decreases over time, thus, the growth is …