We present a set of empirical regularities that characterize the export activity of firms. We decompose firm …, and Norway. We relate the empirical regularities to new trade theories that connect microeconomic activity to aggregate …

and Norway in order to measure how they responded to global markets during the First and Second Globalizations. Both … export performance and industrial expansion. In the case of Chile, our analysis highlights a clear re-primarization based on … one single product whose exploitation did not require heavy knowledge investments. By contrast, Norway was able to combine …