investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In …

This paper investigates the impact of restrictive TBTs on firms' extensive margins (export participation and exit … probability), intensive margins (export value) and pricing strategy (export price). To this end, product-level restrictive TBTs … and firm-level export are combined and an instrumental-variable approach is utilized. The results show that the imposition …

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

heterogeneity of total factor productivity (TFP) and export-market orientation, refining some previously known facts and unveiling … recover TFP. We then document that the most productive exporters are those that export (1) a higher share of their total …

heterogeneity within countries. We find that the weak export growth of France is at least partly due to poor performance by small …. Our results highlight the importance of firm heterogeneity in understanding aggregate export growth. …

purposes. The results show that firms that export both goods and services throughout the sample have higher productivity … goods exporters to goods and services exporters, which exhibit higher productivity than firms that export only goods or … observe no effect of any of export status of firms considered in this paper on their productivity growth. …

This paper studies how the presence of multinational enterprises affects the export performance of Bulgarian … manufacturing firms - Export spillovers from FDI. Using export data at the firm/product/destination level for the period 2004 …-2006, we find positive forward spillover on export value and quantity, related to quality upgrading. Conversely, we find …

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 …