This paper presents and analyzes patterns of trade for a broad category of technology-intensive products, including ATP (advanced technology products), for a group of 15 economies in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Using export data from 1997-2006, we examine the rate of diffusion...

The process of moving goods from the exporter’s location to the port involves significant financial costs, as well as costs associated with lengthy and uncertain delivery times. We illustrate these costs by considering exports from landlocked countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Inland...

Since the late 1990s, reported U.S. imports from China and Hong Kong have regularly and increasingly exceeded reported exports of China and Hong Kong to the United States. This discrepancy, which is not caused by re-exporting through Hong Kong, varies by product categories, and in some cases...

Analyses of Colombian data have generally failed to confirm the hypothesis of export-led growth. In this paper, we generate several measures of export diversification and structural change in exports, and argue that these measures are useful in assessing growth externalities generated by the...

This study provides an objective overview of U.S.-China trade in advanced technology products (ATP). It examines the definitions and classification methods of ATP in the United States and China and illustrates a method to reconcile U.S.-China ATP trade data that combines the strengths of both...

In the literature on firm-level data, “gazelles” refer to rapidly-growing firms, which are of interest both because of their disproportionate contribution to employment and as an indicator of entrepreneurship. This paper makes three contributions: (1) It focuses on gazelles in China and...