This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries …

whole, but little has been said on its impact on the composition of the non-resource export sector. This paper fills this … gap by exploring to what extent concentration of a country’s non-resource export basket is determined by their exports of … results in higher export concentration. We then document two robust empirical findings consistent with the theory. First …

Previous research has documented a strong correlation between countries’ income levels and the quality of their export … goods. Given the evidence of fast unconditional convergence in export quality, this raises the question how to reconcile … these stylized facts with a stable world income distribution.This paper is the first to document why cross-country export …

This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …

the level of regulation in home or export country matters, but also the inter-country differences in regulation for … differ by market, means that the fixed costs of complying with regulations in an export market are in fact sunk market …