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 …

exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies … pursued over time, Kenya's export growth has been sluggish and its contribution to economic growth is still limited …. Notwithstanding diversification efforts, exports are still strongly geared towards primary agricultural goods. Whereas the empirical …

captured by the degree of involvement of European companies in export flows from our sample countries (outward processing trade …This paper examines the link between imported technologies and a country's export performance, as measured by product … neighbouring developing countries. The underlying question is whether trade integration fosters or dampens learning and …

violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that enforces them. Moreover free-riders cannot prevent others to copy their …

sector development acts as a shock-absorber in poor countries, dampening the transmission of terms of trade shocks to growth …-whether financial intermediation is performed through banks or markets-for macroeconomic volatility, against the backdrop of increased … frequent terms of trade shocks, the paper focuses on a sample of 38 LICs over the period 1978-2012 and finds that banking …

subsidy spurs global demand for food and confers a terms-of-trade benefit to the food-exporting nation. This might encourage … subsidization. Terms-of-trade effects wash out between trading nations; hence, any policy intervention by the two trading nations … that raises crude use must be jointly suboptimal. -- Optimal biofuel subsidy ; Pigouvian tax ; terms-of-trade ; pollution …