followed by only-exporters; and iii) estimating export premium without controlling for import status is likely to overestimate …

non-exporters. However, selecting high export potentials is difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to … characterize and identify these (high) export potentials. According to the Melitz (2003) model, potential exporters have to be … productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export …

This paper addresses the lack of connection between theory and empirics in most export diversification …–economic development studies. We provide a Ricardian-based theoretical explanation of countries' relative export variety as a function of … the level of technology and country size assessed with respect to the rest of the world. Relative export diversification …

slowdown is likely to persist for some time. This paper investigates the impact of this phenomenon on export performance, with … associated with higher export competitiveness for the set of countries in our analysis. Furthermore, we try to evaluate four … conclude that, while a reduction in productivity growth is always associated with a decrease in export competitiveness, for …

This paper explores the inter-connection between domestic firms' product innovation, export, and the presence of FDI …-digit manufacturing industries in China. We find evidence that firms' product innovation is positively correlated with their export … revenue, and the presence of FDI affects firms' product innovation and export behaviour both directly and indirectly (via its …