the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …

French firm-level database that combine balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over the period … estimation techniques, instruments, controls, and sub-samples. It is also supported by the natural experiment of the Asian crisis … in the late 1990's. We discuss various channels that may explain this complementarity. -- Export dynamics ; domestic …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …