. But South-South trade is partly picking up the slack. Middle-income countries are driving export diversification of low …-income countries. Developing countries may be moving toward a new version of export-led growth. …

With the virtual disappearance of tariffs, domestic export time delays have emerged as a major obstacle to trade. This … countries. We propose a novel mechanism by which reductions in delays induce governments to increase the export fees they charge … exporters, and test this prediction empirically. Our results support this form of endogenous export fees. They also show that …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

export activities. Trade in services, particularly business services, has become an element of export diversification for …Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because … communication services are among the most successful services exports. This note focuses on the determinants of trade in services …

The paper investigates how Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) affect the range of goods exported by a nation. We use … the Melitz model and highly dis-aggregated data on Euro-Mediterranean trade to measure the effect of preferential trade … liberalization on the range of traded products. By focusing on the zeros in the trade matrix, the paper finds evidence that at the …