export markets. To date, the analysis of demand factors has received much less attention. We propose a new model where …

The paper proposes a theoretical framework for explaining gains and losses in export market shares by considering both …

Growing current account imbalances within the euro area between 1999 and 2007 were not driven by divergences in export … shock but a symptom and they were not necessarily associated with losses in export competitiveness. In this policy brief, we … the disjunction between traditional measures of cost competitiveness (aggregate ULCs) and export performance. …

international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … the impact of unit labor costs on exports. We use exports adjusted for their import content. We find a statistically … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive …

and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

This paper argues that, under certain conditions, firms consider export activity as a substitute of serving domestic … restrictions as additional variables of a properly specified export equation. As an innovation to the literature, we assess the …