In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and trade in goods at firm level for the same country. We focus first on static features of trade such as participation rates, firms' characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration and...

With the aim to boost job creation, the Government of India eyes in making the nation an influential export hub. India's export in services have increased from US$ 145.08 billion in 1999 to US$ 214.8 billion in 2019. The export-to-GDP ratio has risen quite rapidly in India since the 1990s, and...

It has been emphasized that international promotion activities such as state visits or the presence of embassies, consulates and export promotion agencies help foster trade when there are search costs and/or uncertainty. In this paper we try to disentangle the differential effect that foreign...

The nature of international trade has changed significantly. For centuries, trade concentrated on the exchange of finished goods. It now increasingly involves bits of value that are added at different locations to combine into one final product. Therefore, trade in functions or tasks are of...